Weather Vocabulary Quiz #2

A body of air extending hundreds or thousands of miles horizontally and sometimes as high as the stratosphere

• Is called a weather front
• Is called a climate zone
• Is called an air mass
• Is called a jet stream

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hail, mist, rain, sleet, or snow

• condensation

• collection

• precipitation

• perspiration

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To pass into or through (a substance) by filtering or permeating (into rocks/soil)

• precipitation

• infiltration

• collection

• evaporation

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An advancing edge of a cold air mass, where cold air takes over warm air

• Cold Front
• Warm Front
• Stationary Front
• Occluded Front

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Change from a liquid to a vapor

• condensation

• precipitation

• evaporation

• infiltration

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The act or process of accumulating water.

• Evaporation
• Condensation
• Collection

• Transpiration

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Change from a vapor to a liquid.

• condensation

• precipitation

• infiltration

• collection

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The portion of precipitation on land that ultimately reaches streams often with dissolved or suspended material.

• Runoff
• Condensation
• Evaporation
• Transpiration

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the place where two air masses meet

• Front
• Troposphere
• Stratosphere
• Mesosphere

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The passage of watery vapor from a living body (as of a plant) through a membrane or pores

• Transpiration
• Respiration
• Perspiration
• Evaporation