Weather Fronts
A boundary between two air masses.
What is a front?
This is the word for HALF of the earth (northern vs. southern).
What is hemisphere?
It is blue and has triangles on one side only.
What is the appearance of the cold fronts symbol?
The tool used to measure precipitation
What is a rain gauge?
The type of front formed when a large mass of warm air takes over the cooler air mass. Usually produces rain, fog, or snow that is light but steady.
What is a warm front?
This is the term for the average atmospheric conditions over a long period of time (years, for example).
What is climate?
It is red and has bumps on one side only.
What is the appearance of the warm fronts symbol?
The tool used to measure air pressure
What is a barometer?
A type of front made of cold, dense air. Rain, snow, and thunderstorms caused by this front. Usually, the precipitation does not last very long.
What is a cold front?
This is the term for the atmospheric conditions of a certain time and place. This changes daily, hourly, minute-by minute.
What is weather?
This is the type of cloud that occurs at a warm front.
What is nimbostratus?
The tool used to measure temperature
What is a thermometer?
The front that forms when two air masses meet and neither one takes over. Often causes many cloudy days to occur in a row.
What is a stationary front?
These two things cause the seasons on earth.
What are the tilt of the earth and the amount of direct sunlight?
It has bumps on one side and triangles on the other side.
What is the appearance of the stationary fronts symbol?
The tool used to measure wind speed
What is an anemometer?
The type of front that develops when two cool air masses merge, forcing the warm air to rise and become trapped. Usually brings wind and precipitation.
What is an occluded front?
True or False:
Places with mid-latitudes tend to have the same season year-round, while places along the equator tend to have seasons that vary.
False
It has bumps and triangle on the same side.
What is the appearance of the occluded fronts symbol?
The four elements used to measure and describe weather
What are wind, temperature, air pressure, precipitation?