Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Weather
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
The wind that blows from the water to the land is called
What is a sea breeze?
100
The "m" in mP stands for this.
What is maritime?
100
When a mass of cold air moves into a mass of warm air.
What is a cold front?
100
Mixture of gases that surround the Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
100
Why ocean currents are warm near the equator and cold near the polar zones.
What is the sun strikes the Earth directly at the equator and indirectly at the polar zones?
200
The wind that blows from the land to the water is called.
What is a land breeze?
200
Fronts are formed between.
What are between two air masses?
200
Front that produces thunderstorms.
What are cold fronts?
200
Forms when two air masses meet.
What are fronts?
200
The main two gases found in our atmosphere.
What are nitrogen and oxygen?
300
Any kind of water that falls from the clouds.
What is precipitation?
300
Winds are caused by this.
What is the rising of warm air and the sinking of cool air?
300
The type of air mass that forms over land.
What are dry air masses?
300
Moving stream of water caused by winds pushing against the ocean's surface.
What are ocean currents?
300
Why the air above a city is different from above the ocean.
What is more water vapor above the ocean and maybe more CO2 above a city because of burning fossil fuels?
400
The dry side of a mountain range.
What is the leeward side?
400
Name three types of weather instruments.
What are thermometers, anemometers, barometers, and rain gauges?
400
This system brings clear weather.
What is a high-pressure system?
400
Boundary between two air masses that differ in temperature and moisture.
What are weather fronts?
400
The side of the mountain that receives moisture.
What is the windward side?
500
The three types of climate zones.
What are polar, temperate, and tropical?
500
Name the layers of the atmosphere from the inner most to the outer most.
What are troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere?
500
Weather during the winter and summer in the temperate zone.
What are cool to cold winters and warm to hot summers?
500
A body of air that has about the same moisture and temperature.
What is an air mass?
500
The temperature averages 65 degrees and receives an average of 25 inches of rain. This describes an areas
What is climate?
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