Weather Tools
Tool used to measure temperature
What is a thermometer?
Forms when two air masses meet (cold or warm)
What is a FRONT?
Two types of pressure systems.
What is high and low pressure systems?
Phenomena that occurs across the U.S.
What is JET STREAM?
Forms over a warm body of water or tropical water.
What is a Hurricane?
The 5 main layers in our atmosphere from closest to Earth to closest to space.
What is Troposphere – Stratosphere – Mesosphere – Thermosphere – Exosphere?
Water droplets combine in a cloud, get heavy, and fall to the ground as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is Precipitation?
Form from the condensation of water vapor and are made of water droplets, dust and dirt.
What are Clouds?
Measures wind DIRECTION
What is Wind Vane or Weathervane?
When a warm air mass slowly rises over a cold one. Creating warmer weather and long periods of precipitation.
What is a Warm front?
Pressure system where you would find Lousy weather.
What is a Low pressure system?
Brings down COLD POLAR conditions from the north.
What is the Polar Jet Stream?
Develops in a LOW PRESSURE system, over tropical water and has whirling, strong winds
Absorbs harmful ultraviolet rays from the sun to protect life on earth. With out it we would have very high levels of ultraviolet radiation.
What is the Ozone?
Water cycle process where water vapor turns into a liquid.
What is Condensation?
Masses of puffy white clouds with flat bottoms. When white =nice weather, when dark may=bad weather.
What are Cumulus Clouds?
Used to measure WIND SPEED
Revolving cups
What is an Anemometer?
When a fast moving cold air mass collides and slides under a warm air mass. Creating VIOLENT weather.
What is a Cold front?
Pressure system where you would find FAIR/ Good/ HAPPY weather.
What is a High pressure system?
Can bring WARM TROPICAL conditions from the south up to the U.S.
What is the Subtropical Jet Stream ?
Source of all energy in the atmosphere.
What is the Sun or Solar Energy?
Closest layer to Outer Space.
What is Exosphere?
The SUN heats up bodies of water turning it into vapor which rises up into the air.
What is Evaporation?
Low, layered clouds that may signal rain.
What are Status Clouds?
Used to measure humidity of % of water vapor in air
What is a SLING PSYCHROMETER also called a HYGROMETER?
After meeting neither the Cold air mass or Warm air mass moves at the boundary, they stay in place. Creating long periods of precipitation.
What is a Stationary front?
Weather systems likely to occur in a HIGH pressure system.
What is FAIR, warmer, sunny, and light wind/clouds?
A jet stream from a POLAR region, Canada, is bringing wind South to the U.S. This will make the US experience a different type of weather that is common in polar regions.
What is COOLER weather?
What is Air, Water, and the Sun?
Layer of the atmosphere where weather occurs.
What is Troposphere?
Water returned to the Earth's surface and relocated in the ground or a body of water.
What is Run-off?
Feathery, wispy, high, thin, white clouds.
What is Cirrus Clouds?
Used to measures air pressure
What is a BAROMETER?
When a Warm air mass is BEHIND a Cool air mass, creating long periods of precipitation.
What is an Occluded front?
Weather likely to occur in a Low pressure system.
What is a hurricane, tornado, or thunderstorm?
Brings cold water to warm areas and warm water to cold areas. Weather and climate are influenced by the Circulation of warm and cold ocean waters.
What is Ocean Surface Currents?
Water gains it slowly and looses it slowly.
Land gains it fast an looses it fast.
What is Heat?
To avoid the storm ahead, the Piolet should fly in the atmospheric layer above the Troposphere.
What is the Stratosphere?
Clouds, Dew, and Frost are visual forms of a water cycle process.
What is visual forms of Condensation?
Cloud formed near the ground to form FOG.
What is a Stratus Cloud?
Shows lines of equal atmospheric pressure of a weather map.
What is Isobars?
Front formed when warmer, less dense air rises over the colder air.
What is a Warm Front?
Where atmospheric pressure is greatest.
What is near the Earth's surface?
What is near sea level?
Influences the Pacific shoreline(WEST COAST) by bringing cold, moist air. Making water chilly.
What is the California Current?
The reason sea and land breezes form is because SOMETHING heats and cools more quickly than water.
What is Land?
Layer of the atmosphere where most of the ozone is found?
What is Stratosphere?
Name and explain 4 processes of the Water Cycle?
What is Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation and Run-off?
https://www.amwater.com/wvaw/resources/PDF/WVAW-Water-Cycle.pdf
When warm air rises, cools, saturates, and WATER VAPOR turns into tiny drops something is formed.
What is Clouds?
Lines connecting points of equal temperature on a weather map.
What is Isotherms?
A large body of air that has the same properties as the Earth’s surface over which it develops
What is Air Masses?
Makes atmospheric pressure GREATEST near SEA LEVEL and DESREASES (becomes lower) as you move upward -such as the top of Mt. Everest.
What is the downward pull of GRAVITATIONAL force?
Atmospheric pressure levels are influenced by... the downward pull of GRAVITATIONAL force.
Brings warmer waters northeast, warming the Atlantic Coast.
What is The Gulf Stream?
The higher the percentage the hotter and sticker it will feel outside.
What is Humidity?
Two main gases found in our air.
What is Nitrogen and Oxygen?
This region's air flow begins at the equator. The sun heats air causing it to rise, cool, and descend around 30 degrees latitude.
What is Tropical region?
Desert towns rarely have fog but costal towns do often. The desert has less of something that costal towns have a lot of which creates its fog.
What is WATER VAPOR?