Weather Words

Air pressure is

• a large body of air that has the same temperature and level of humidity throughout

• The amount of water vapor in the air

• The weight of the air in an area

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the condition of the atmosphere at a certain time and place

• climate

• weather

• temperature

• precipitation

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A scientist who studies weather

• geologist

• archeologist

• meteorologist

• biologist

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Clouds of high altitude, thin and wispy, made of ice crystals

• cumulus

• stratus

• cumulonimbus

• cirrus

The amount of water vapor (moisture) in the air

• altitude

• humidity

• cloud

• air mass

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The area in which a warm air mass and a cold air mass meet and neither have the energy to move one another

• occluded front

• warm front

• cold front

• stationary front

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Differences in air pressure cause wind.

• True

• False

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Which two processes cause clouds to form?

• precipitation and runoff

• transpiration and precipitation

• evaporation and condensation

• evaporation and ground water

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As altitude increases, air pressure _______.

• increases

• decreases

• stays the same

A front is

• where warm air is cooling at earth's surface
• a boundary where hot and cold air are separating
• a boundary where two different air masses meet
• where cold air is rising and forming rain clouds

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