All of the Weathers
Water Cycle
Weather Instruments
Weather
Air Masses, Fronts and Climates
100
What is weather?
What the air is like outside, or the day to day changes of the air outside.
100
This is the process by which plants sweat.
What is transpiration?
100
I am used to measure the temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100
Brings sunny skies. The air temperature is drier and cool.
What is high pressure?
100
the average weather pattern of a region
What is climate
200
During the day, the land heats up more quickly than the sea, resulting in what type of breeze?
What is sea breeze
200
The part of the water cycle involves liquid becoming a gas.
What is evaporation?
200
I am used to measure amounts of precipitation.
What is a rain gauge?
200
A __________ area forms when air is warmed. usually brings clouds, rain, and wind.
What is low-pressure ?
200
a boundary between air masses with different temperatures
What is a front
300
On what day did the cold front most likely come through?
What is Tuesday?
300
This water cycle process is represented by A?
What is precipitation?
300
I am used to measure wind direction.
What is a wind vane?
300
This forms without warning during thunderstorms as a column of warm air begins to spin upward forming a funnel cloud.
What is a tornado?
300
a large region of the atmosphere where the air has similar properties throughout
What is air mass
400
What do we call the warm ocean current that moves from the equator along the East coast of the United States, including North Carolina.
The Gulf Stream
400
When it is hot outside and you see water droplets on the outside of your class of ice water, this water cycle process is represented.
What is condensation?
400
I am used to measure the wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
400
What is the source of a hurricane's energy?
warm ocean water
400
The weather on this side of the front is colder and less humid.
What is the west side of the front?
500
This is the reason that the polar regions are colder than those around the equator.
What is less direct sunlight?
500
This term is used for water that flows down a mountain when the snow at the top melts.
What is run off?
500
I am used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
500
What two cities would be affected the most by the Gulf Stream?
What are Wilmington and Jacksonville.
500
Hurricanes that affect North Carolina form in this ocean.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?