What is another name for hurricane?
Cyclone
What cause air masses in North America to move?
What are jet streams or previaling winds
What is it called where two air masses meet?
Front
A scientist who studies the causes of weather and tries to predict.
What is a meteorologist?
An area of low pressure, winds spiraling into the center.
What is a cyclone?
Weather Station
In which directions do jet streams move?
A curved line with red half circles on it is the symbol for a ?
Warm front
What is weather balloon?
An air mass that is warm/hot and humid.
What is Maritime Tropical?
Cool air comes in from areas of ____________ pressure.
High pressure
Explain a Continental Polar air mass.
What is cool and dry?
The weather forecast indicates that the weather will be turning cold very quickly with the chance clouds, light rain or snow. What type of front would cause this?
Cold front.
When a warm air mass is caught between two cold fronts?
What is Occluded?
What is a huge body of air that has similar temperature, humidity and air pressure at any given height?
What are air masses?
Warm air mass meets and rises above cold air masses during this kind of front
Warm front.
A band of high- speed winds about 6-14km above the Earth's surface.
What are jet streams?
This type of front brings many days of cloudy, wet weather and a warm air mass runs into a cold air mass but neither can move
Stationary front.
The condition of the atmosphere at a particular place and time
Weather
Where are Maritime air masses likely to form?
What is ocean water?
What makes weather so hard to predict?
The atmosphere works in such a way that a small change in weather today can mean a larger change in weather a week later.
A cool dry air mass is?
DAILY DOUBLE...And where would it form?
What is Continental Polar?
What is Canada?
What does accurate weather do?
A large body of air with similar temperature, humidity and air pressure that forms over land or water.
Air mass
What causes air masses to become to become warmer?
What is the Gulf Stream effect?