Weather vocabulary rev #2

1. When large pieces of crust are tilted, uplifted, or dropped between normal

faults, these form.  We have plenty in Nevada.

• fault block mountains

• Escarpment and butte structures
• Plateau and mesa structures
• uplifted mountains

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

1. slow process of earth’s crust rising due to removal of overlaying

material. (It weighs less so it moves up.)

• Isostatic rebound
• Volcanic subsidence
• Seismic rebound
• Tectonic uplift

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

1. These form when large regions of earth crust are forces slowly upward

without much deformation of bending.

• Valleys
• fault block mountains

• Plateaus
• uplifted mountains

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

1. the temperature at which air is cooled enough for saturation to occur and

condensation will happen

• Dew point temperature
• Frost point temperature
• Boiling point temperature
• Freezing point temperature

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

small particle in the atmosphere around which cloud droplets form

• Condensation nuclei
• Precipitation nuclei
• Cloud competition nuclei

• Atmospheric particles

solid or liquid forms of water that fall from clouds

• dew
• precipitation
• raindrops
• waterfalls

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

usually occur below 2000 m

• cumulus cloud

• stratus cloud

• cirrus cloud

• abyssal zone

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

flat, layered, sheetlike clouds that cover much or all of the sky in a given area

• nimbostratus
• stratus

• altocumulus
• cirrostratus

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

high, icy clouds that are wispy and form above 6000m

• Nimbus clouds
• Cumulus clouds
• Cirrus clouds
• Stratus clouds

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

1. The area over which an airmass forms – giving it the qualities of that

physical space such as temperature or humidity

• Weather pattern
• Source region
• Climate region
• Atmospheric zone

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5