Slide1 : 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt Precipitation Air Masses
Clouds Instruments Miscellaneous
Slide2 : Water in the air condenses when the air is cooled to the point of this
Slide3 : What is saturation?
Slide4 : What water vapor in the air eventually falls to the Earth as
Slide5 : What is precipitation?
Slide6 : What cloud droplets that fall in temperatures above freezing fall as
Slide7 : What is rain?
Slide8 : What forms instead of rain when the air temperature is below freezing
Slide9 : What is snow?
Slide10 : Snowflakes that melt as they fall then refreeze form this
Slide11 : What is sleet?
Slide12 : The properties of this are determined by the part of the Earth’s surface over which it forms
Slide13 : What is an air mass?
Slide14 : The slope of a warm air mass
Slide15 : What is gentle?
Slide16 : The kind of front that forms when a warm air mass is forced up over a cold air mass
Slide17 : What is warm?
Slide18 : The kind of air mass that develops over Northern Canada
Slide19 : What is cold and dry?
Slide20 : The kind of front that forms when two cold air masses merge and the warm air mass between them is forced to rise
Slide21 : What is occluded?
Slide22 : A large and billowy cloud
Slide23 : What is cumulus?
Slide24 : When water does this in the atmosphere, it forms clouds
Slide25 : What is condenses?
Slide26 : When air near the ground is cooled to the saturation point, this forms
Slide27 : What is fog?
Slide28 : Water that condenses around dust particles in the atmosphere forms these
Slide29 : What are cloud droplets?
Slide30 : The type of clouds that form near the ground
Slide31 : What is stratus?
Slide32 : An instrument used to measure temperature
Slide33 : What is a thermometer?
Slide34 : Sensitive instruments used to measure atmospheric pressure
Slide35 : What are barometers?
Slide36 : The measure of the amount of water at a particular temperature
Slide37 : What is the relative humidity?
Slide38 : An instrument which measures relative humidity
Slide39 : What is a psychrometer?
Slide40 : The kind of weather that high pressure usually brings
Slide41 : What is clear?
Slide42 : The amount of water vapor in the air
Slide43 : What is humidity?
Slide44 : How a great deal of water gets into the atmosphere
Slide45 : What is evaporates?
Slide46 : The temperature at which air is saturated and condensation takes place
Slide47 : What is dew point?
Slide48 : The boundary between air masses
Slide49 : What is a front?
Slide50 : The kind of front that forms when a cold air mass moves underneath a warm air mass
Slide51 : What is cold?