Predicting Weather Vocab

The heat from a lamp allows a lizard to remain warm. This is an example of which type of heat transfer?

• radiation
• conduction
• convection
• insulation

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The cycle that powers the ocean currents, weather, and tectonic plates it called

• conduction current
• radiation
• condition current
• convection current

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A rising column of air.

• vapor
• updraft
• pressure
• destructive

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What is precipitation?

• solids falling from the sky

• precipitation

• any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches earth's surface

• liquids falling from the sky

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Which is the correct symbol for a stationary front?

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Which is the correct symbol for a warm front?

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Which is the correct symbol for a cold front?

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The boundary between two air masses is called a/an - 

• flood
• front
• climate
• storm

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what is an air mass?

• a large body of air that is made of the same temperature and moisuture
• when two air masses meet 

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Low pressure will usually bring what kind of weather?

• Sunny
• Calm
• Stormy

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