weather science vocab

_______ is the amount of mass a substance in a given volume.

• Density

• air pressure

• precipitation

• humidity

Air pressure is ____

• winds that blow over short distances.

• harmful substances in the air, water, or soil.

• the pressure caused by the weight of a column of air pushing down on an area.

• the temperature at which condensation begins.

harmful substances in the air, water, or soil.

• polution

• dirt

• cirrus

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Rain that contains more acid than normal

Cold front

• A warm air mass overtakes a slow moving cold air mass.

• a fast moving cold air mass overtakes a warm air mass.

• Cold and warm air masses meet but neither can move the other.

• Cut off, as in a front where a warm air mass is caught between two cooler air masses

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

wispy, feathery, clouds made of ice crystals that form at high levels.

huge body of that has similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure at any given height.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

rapidly whirling funnel-shaped cloud that reaches down to touch earths surface.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

the flew of air from a land to a body of water

winds that blow over short distances.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5