What is nitrogen, oxygen and carbon dioxide (not love)
100
What are the three types of heat and give a quick example of each?
What is convection (convection oven), radiation (from the sun), and conduction (touching the stove)
100
What are the 4 main types of air masses? Describe each
What is maritime (wet), continental (dry), polar (cold), tropical (hot)
100
Where do Tornadoes happen the most?
What is tornado alley in the mid-west USA
200
What are the three climate zones of the world?
What is temperate, polar and tropical
200
What causes wind?
What is differences in air pressure?
200
When two air masses collide it is called a ____________
What is front
200
Where do Hurricanes happen the most and why?
What is between 5-20 degrees latitude because hurricanes need warm water and cold air.
200
What are the five types of precipitation? Which is the most common?
What is rain, snow, sleet, hail, freezing rain. Rain is the most common
300
What is the difference between weather and climate?
What is climate is an overall average and weather is what occurs at a specific time
300
Wind always moves from ____________ pressure to ____________ pressure.
What is high to low
300
What are the four main types of fronts? Draw a picture of what each looks like on a weather map
What is warm (red with circles), cold (blue with triangles), occluded (purple with circles and triangles) and stationary (red and blue with circles and triangles)
300
Why would you evacuate during a hurricane but not a tornado?
What is because you cannot predict tornadoes. We can track the route of hurricanes using satellites but not tornadoes.
300
What instrument do we use to measure air pressure?
What is barometer
400
Is air renewable or nonrenewable?
What is renewable because of photosynthesis
400
What are the three main global winds? Which one effects the US the most?
What is polar easterlies, prevailing westerlies, and the trade winds
400
What happens during a cold front that doesn't happen during warm fronts?
What is severe weather and colder temperatures
400
A storm surge is a dangerous part of what storm?
What is hurricane
400
Why is it when you go higher in the atmosphere, the pressure and density decrease?
What is because there is less air pressing down when you are higher in the air, also density decreases because gases that are more dense sink (cold air) and gases that are less dense rise (warm air).
500
Why do some places have colder climates and other places have warmer climates? (3 reasons)
What is elevation, currents, and unequal heating of the earth's surface from the sun
500
What causes the Coriolis effect and how does it influence winds?
What is the earth's rotation and it causes winds to rotate.
500
Warm air has _____________ pressure because it is ____________ dense. Cold air has ________________ pressure because it is _________________ dense.
What is low, less and high, more
500
All storms need what type of pressure to form?
What is low
500
Draw a picture of a sea breeze and a land breeze. Which one happens at night and which one happens during the day? In what direction is the wind moving in each?
What is
Sea breeze: happens during the day because the water is cold. High pressure is above the water and low pressure is above the land. The wind moves towards the land.
Land breeze: happens at night because the water is warm and the land is cold. High pressure is above the land and the low pressure is above the water. The wind moves towards the sea.