Grab Bag
Amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity
What type of front most likely signals violent thunderstorms?
What is a cold front
Name 2 reasons climates differ from one place to another
Temperature and Precipitation
The lowest layer of the atmosphere
What is the troposphere
The process that changes a gas to liquid
What is condensation
Where 2 air masses meet
What is a front
By which method do most pollutants enter the atmosphere?
What is burning fossil fuels for electricity
The layer of the atmosphere that burns up meteors
What is the mesosphere
A cold and wet air mass would form in a ____ ____ zone
Maritime Polar (mP)
The air is heated so that it expands and contracts explosively, the result is
What is thunder?
What is one non-renewable source of energy?
Coal
The most intense part of a hurricane is the
What is the eye wall
Cold air moves in under warm air
What is a cold front?
What is the difference between a supercell thunderstorm and a frontal or land mass thunderstorm?
What is a supercell is always rotating
Alaska is in a ___________ zone.
What is continental polar.
A cloud that forms closest to the ground.
What is fog.
In order for a thunderstorm to form, moisture, lifting, and ______________ must be present
What is an unstable atmosphere?
This type of pressure brings rainy, cloudy weather
What is low pressure?
What part of a hurricane causes the most deaths?
What is the storm surge
The most humid zones are the ________ zones.
What is maritime tropical.
The layer of the atmosphere that contains the ozone layer
What is the stratosphere