Predicting Weather Study Guide
1. What are scientists who study weather and try to predict it called?
2. Isobars are lines on a map joining places that have the same what?
3. Places shown on a weather map that have the same temperature are connected by what?
4. The boundary where unlike air masses meet, but do not easily mix is a called what?
5. What kind of cloud usually occurs at the highest altitude?
6. What are sheet-shaped clouds, that are a uniform dull gray color called?
7. Condensation and the formation of clouds begins as the rising air reaches its what?
8. What kind of weather would cumulonimbus clouds likely bring?
9. What are two general characteristics that define each cloud type?
10. What source of weather data would enable a meteorologist to follow the path of an approaching
thunderstorm?
11. Where are weather balloons located?
12. How is wind speed measured?
13. How are weather satellites better than ground-based automated weather stations?
14. What does a line with half circles indicate?
15. How is wind speed represented on a weather station symbol?
16. What does a cloud cover symbol that is ¾ black and ¼ white represent?
Predicting Weather Study Guide
17. What happens to the air molecules in a high-pressure system?
18. What weather instrument takes measurements for isobars?
19. What do each of the symbols shown below represent?