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| a big mass of air that has the characteristics of the land that it goes across |
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| a boundary between air masses |
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| it is were a warm air mass overpowers a cold air masses |
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| is when a cold fair mass overpowers a warm front |
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| low pressure system that forms over the warm atlantic ocean |
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| people that study weather |
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| very fast winds with low temperatures |
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| violent rotating coloumn of air |
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| flash of electricity when two oppositely charged clouds collide |
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| boundary between air masses that stops moving |
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| wind blows away from center of high pressure is a clockwise |
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| wind blows into a low pressure system in a counter clockwise direction |
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| caused by uneven heating of the Earths surface. |
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| average speed of molecules at a specific time |
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| the state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place |
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| thin vail of air that surrounds the earth |
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| place where level of ozone has depleted |
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| temperature at which water condenses |
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| water which freezes before hitting the ground |
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evaporation warm water rises
condenses to form a cloud
dew point determines the height |
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