Ocean Currents
The warm surface current that flows along the east coast of the USA.
What is the Gulf Stream Current?
The weather tool used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
A breeze you feel during the day when the high pressure is over the water.
What is a Sea Breeze?
What causes MOST changes in local weather?
What is movement of air masses?
A cloud of condensed water droplets, rotating in a column of wind and extending from the base of a cloud but not reaching the ground.
What is a Funnel Cloud?
The type of current that is formed by differences in temperature and salinity.
What is a deep current?
The weather tool used to measure wind direction.
What is a wind vane?
A local wind you can feel at night when the high pressure is on the mountain.
What is a Mountain Breeze?
The temperature at which air will become saturated with water vapor and condense into condensation.
What is dew point?
A violently rotating column of air extending from the base of a thunderstorm down to the ground.
What is a tornado?
A current that is formed by global winds, the Coriolis effect and continental deflection.
What is a surface current?
The weather tool used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
The side of the mountain that tends to receive the most precipitation.
What is the Windward Side?
A large bubble of air that formed over an ocean near the equator.
What is a Maritime Tropical air mass?
The type of air pressure that makes us happy and brings fair weather.
The cold surface current that flows along the West coast of the USA.
What is the California Current?
The weather tool used to measure wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
The side of the mountain where rain shadows form.
What is the Leeward Side?
A blue line with triangles going the same direction on a weather map.
What is a cold front?
A hurricane that has wind speeds of 156 mph or higher and causes severe damage and substantial inland flooding.
What is a Category 5 hurricane?
This causes droughts to occur in Indonesia and Australia.
What is El Nino?
The weather tool used to measure relative humidity.
What is a hygrometer?
The convection cell involved in atmospheric circulation between 0 degrees latitude and 30 degrees north and south latitude.
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
What is Lake Effect Snow?