Winds
Weather
Movement of Air
Air Mass Types
Weather Map Trivia
100
Monsoons
What is caused by very powerful sea breezes in summer in South East Asia.
100
Wind
What is caused by the uneven heating of the earth's surfaces?
100
Land Breezes
What type of convection breeze occurs at night where land and water meet - because the land cools faster than water at night?
100
Maritime Polar
What type of air mass affects the Northwest and Northeast coasts of the U.S.?
100
Barometer
What measures atmospheric pressure in millibars?
200
Global Winds
What is cased by movement of air between the equator and the poles?
200
Warm Tropics
What is caused by intense sun energy at the equator passing through a thin atmosphere?
200
Convection Currents
What giant currents are caused by temperature differences?
200
Maritime tropical
What type of air mass affects the west and southwest coasts of the U.S?
200
Clear Weather
What type of weather is associated with high pressure systems?
300
Local Winds
What is caused by the warming and cooling of Earth's surfaces?
300
Cold Poles
What is caused by sun's rays passing through a thick atmosphere?
300
Sea Breeze
What type of convection breeze where land and water meet occur during the day since land warms up faster than water?
300
Continental Polar
What type of air mass affects the midwest?
300
Increments of 10 degrees
What do color bands on U.S. weather maps represent?
400
Land and Sea Breezes
What is caused by convection?
400
Weather Changes
What is caused by the meeting of the easterlies and westerlies?
400
Air expands, gets lighter and rises
What happens when the sun warms the earth?
400
Southern Plains
What are of the U.S. is affected by a continental tropical air mass?
400
Low Pressure
What type of pressure usually accompanies a front with precipitation?
500
Trade Winds, Easterlies, Westerlies
What is caused by the sun's energy and the earth's rotation?
500
Air Masses
What carries temperature and moisture to other areas and thus weather?
500
Jetstream
What affects where fronts form and moves weather in the U.S. from the west to the east?
500
Central and Eastern U.S.
What area of the U.S. is affected by Maritime Tropical air masses?
500
The meeting of two different air masses.
What is a front?
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