Air
Forecast
Climate
Vocabulary
MISC.
100
This kind of air sinks.
What is cool air?
100
Warm fronts bring this kind of weather.
What is warm weather?
100
Oceans and this can affect climate.
What are landforms (mountains)?
100
This measures the amount of rain that has fallen.
What is a rain gauge?
100
This is a boundary between two air masses.
What is a front?
200
This kind of air rises.
What is warm air?
200
Cold fronts bring in this kind of weather.
What is cooler weather?
200
Air is pushed up over mountains where it is cooled and brings this to the other side of the mountain.
What is precipitation?
200
This is the average weather conditions over many years.
What is climate?
300
There are this many layers of of atmoshere.
What is 5?
300
Low pressure brings this kind of weather.
What is cloudy/changing weather?
300
Oceans slow the rise and fall of this.
What is air temperature?
300
This is a large body of air with similar properties.
What is an air mass?
300
This is the bottom layer of the atmoshere where all the weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
400
Winds generally blow from this direction to this direction.
What is west to east?
400
This pressure brings in clear/stable weather.
What is high pressure?
400
Gulf stream waters does this to the wind above it.
What is warm the winds?
400
This measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
400
This measures air pressure and this measures moisture in the air.
What is a barometer and a hygrometer?
500
Air pressure does this as you travel up in the atmoshere.
What is decrease?
500
Fronts are always in places of this kind of pressure.
What is low pressure?
500
Past climates can be studied by looking at these.
What are fossils?
500
This is a circular current of air, looping pattern.
What is a convection current?
500
Water becomes warm and cools more _____ than on land.
What is slowly?
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