7th Grade Science Vocabulary #2

Visual representation of the movement of weather conditions

• Weather forecasting

• Meteorology

• Weather map

Making predictions of future weather

• weather map

• weather forecasting

• air mass

Air mass

• the leading edge of an air mass

• condition and health of the atmosphere

• change in pressure from one area to another

• large section of air that has the same weather conditions throughout

Front

• the leading edge of an air mass

• large section of air that has the same weather throughout

• agency that protects humans and the environment

• warm ocean current

cold front

• leading edge of a cooler air mass

• leading edge of an air mass

• condition and health of the atmosphere

• cool ocean current

Warm front

• leading edge of an air mass

• warm ocean current

• strong wind

• leading edge of a warm air mass; brings heavy rain

thin, feathery, high level clouds

• cumulus

• stratus

• cirrus

• nimbus

layered low level clouds

• cirrus

• stratus

• cumulus

• nimbus

puffy low level clouds

• cirrus

• stratus

• cumulus

• nimbus

clouds that produce thunder and lightning

• cirrus

• stratus

• cumulus

• cumulonimbus