Chapter 16 MM

  1. A front that forms when a cold a cold air mass meets a warm air mass.
    Stationary Front
  2. Areas that have lower air pressure than the surrounding areas do.
    Cyclones
  3. Areas that have high pressure.
    Anticyclones
  4. What is the temperature at which gas condenses into a liquid.
    Dew Point
  5. Lumps of ice that falls from clouds are called what?
    Hail
  6. A _____ is a collection of millions of tiny water droplets or ice crystals.
    Cloud
  7. There are three types of clouds. They are what?
    Cumulus Cloud, Stratus Cloud, and Cirrus Cloud
  8. What is water, in solid or liquid form, that falls from the air to Earth?
    Precipitation
  9. An electrical discharge that occurs between a positively charged area and a negatively charged area.
    Lightning
  10. What is a small, spinning column of air that has high wind.
    Tornado
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