Weather Models
Fronts
Air Masses
Pressure Systems
Reading A Map
100
What does a station model show about the weather?
What is weather conditions such as temperature, pressure, wind, and cloud cover.
100
What is a weather front?
What is the boundary where two different air masses meet.
100
What is an air mass?
What is a large body of air with similar temperature and humidity throughout.
100
What does a blue H represent?
What is a high pressure system
100
What front is in North Carolina?
What is a warm front
200
What does the amount of shading in the station circle represent?
What is cloud coverage
200
What are the four main types of fronts?
What is cold, warm, stationary, and occluded fronts.
200
What two characteristics are used to classify an air mass?
What is temperature and humidity
200
What does a red L represent?
What is a low pressure system
200
What pressure system is off the coast of Flordia?
What is a high pressure system.
300
What do weather satellites observe?
What is Clouds, storms, temperature patterns, and other atmospheric conditions.
300
What happens when a cold front catches a warm front?
What is an occluded front forms.
300
Which air mass is warm and moist?
What is Maritime Tropical (mT)
300
A city has clear skies and increasing air pressure. What weather system may be nearby?
What is a high pressure system
300
What weather is Utah (UT) experiencing?
What is cloudy skies and possible thunderstorms.
400
What does the dew point tell meteorologists?
What is the amount of moisture in the air
400
Why does a warm front often produce widespread clouds and precipitation?
What is warm air gradually rises over colder, denser air and cools, causing condensation.
400
Which air mass would likely bring cold, dry weather to the central United States?
What is Continental Polar (cP)
400
What happens when warm, moist air rises in a low-pressure system?
What is it cools and condenses, which can produce clouds and precipitation
400
If an occluded front is heading towards North Dakota, what weather will they have?
What is steady rain.
500
A radar image shows a line of strong storms moving east. What could meteorologists use this information to predict?
What is which areas may experience storms next
500
What do the semicircles on a warm front point toward?
What is the direction the warm front is moving.
500
A warm, moist air mass moves into an area. Predict the weather conditions that could result.
What is warmer, more humid conditions with possible clouds and precipitation.
500
In the Northern Hemisphere, surface winds in a high-pressure system rotate in this direction.
What is clockwise
500
What type of weather could Texas experience?
What is heavy rain, flash flooding, and severe thunderstorms.