VOCAB
FRONTS
AIR MASSES
WINDS
MISC
100
Depends on local changes in weather.
What is local winds?
100
Cold air replaces warm air.
What is a cold front?
100
Air masses that form over land and are dry.
What is continental air masses?
100
Blows from the land toward the sea.
What is a land breeze?
100
Snow, hail, rain and sleet.
What is precipitation?
200
Global winds that blow constantly from the same direction.
What is prevailing winds?
200
Warm air replaces cold air.
What is a warm front?
200
Air masses form over land near the equator. Are warm and dry.
What is continental tropical air masses?
200
Winds blows from the sea toward the land at this time.
What is during the day?
200
Measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
300
Boundary between air masses
What is a front?
300
Cold air ________ and warm air __________.
What is sinks and rises?
300
Air masses form over bodies of water near the poles, are cold and moist air.
What is maritime polar air masses?
300
Winds blows from the land toward the sea at this time.
What is at night?
300
Water changes from a gas to a liquid and starts to form clouds.
What is condensation?
400
A large body of air that has nearly the same temperature and humidity throughout.
What is an air mass?
400
When two fronts with different of these meet, weather changes.
What is characteristics?
400
Air masses that form over land, near the poles and are cold and dry air.
What is continental polar air?
400
Absorbs the sun's energy faster than water.
What is land?
400
Measures humidity.
What is a hygrometer?
500
A breeze that blows toward the land.
What is a sea breeze?
500
Rising warm air cools, clouds form and this usually follows.
What is precipitation?
500
Tropical air masses form near here.
What is the equator?
500
Two causes of prevailing winds.
What is uneven heating of the earth's surface and the earth's rotation?
500
When air masses remain in the same position for a time, this is the boundary.
What is a stationary front.
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