Describing weather
Weather patterns
Weather Patterns 2
Weather forecasts
weather forecasts 2
100
The series of natural processes by which water continually moves among oceans, land, and the atmosphere is _____
What is the water cycle?
100
The system causes clear sunny weather.
What is a high pressure system?
100
Thunderstorms are usually associated with the type of front.
What is a cold front?
100
a description of variables on earth's surface is a ________
What is a surface report?
100
Warm fronts are shown with ___________
What is red semi-circles?
200
Low lying clouds that appear in a blanket of gray are ____
What are stratus clouds?
200
This system causes clouds and often precipitation.
What is a low pressure system?
200
Steady rain or snow for several hours is associated more with a _____
What is warm front?
200
a _________________ describes wind, temperature, and humidity conditions above earth's surface.
What is an upper air report?
200
Many isobars close together indicate ________
What is strong winds/changing weather?
300
When reporting humidity in a percent you are actually giving the __________ humidity.
What is relative humidity?
300
air masses that come from a land area are _______
What is continental?
300
The second stage of a thunderstorm is the _____ stage.
What is the Mature stage?
300
Doppler radar was a big advancement because it detects ___________
What is the movement of small particles?
300
a fully filled in circle on a station model indicates _______
What is completely cloudy skies?
400
List the seven variables used to describing weather.
What is wind speed, wind direction, air temperature, humidity, air pressure, cloud coverage, precipitation.
400
an air mass coming from the southern Pacific ocean would be _________
What is Maritime tropical?
400
Dr. Ted Fujita developed a scale from __ to __ to classify __________.
What is EF0 to EF5 to classify Tornadoes?
400
Lines that connect points of equal pressure are _______
What are isobars?
400
The tail coming out of the circle on the station model indicates _________
What is wind speed and direction?
500
Hail forms because of ____________ within a cumulonimbus cloud.
What is strong updrafts of air?
500
An air mass forming over Canada would be _________
What is Continental polar?
500
The most destructive storms on earth are ________
What is a hurricane?
500
Cold fronts are shown with _____________
What is blue triangles?
500
Meteorologist Jacob Bjerknes named the boundary between air masses as ____________
What is fronts?
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