Atmospheric Layers
This layer of the atmosphere is where most weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
This weather tool measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
This air mass forms over cold land and is dry.
What is cP (continental polar)?
What is high pressure to low pressure?
This type of storm forms over warm ocean weather.
What is a hurricane?
This atmospheric layer contains a gas that protects us from UV rays
What is the stratosphere?
On a weather map, tightly packed isobars indicate this type of condition.
What is high winds?
What is a cold front?
Surface winds rotate in this direction around a low pressure system in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is counterclockwise?
This storm is short-lived and causes damage along a narrow path.
What is a tornado?
This is the order that the atmospheric layers appear, from lowest to highest.
What is the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere?
This tool is used to detect particle motion within storms.
What is doppler radar?
This air mass rises when a warm, moist air mass meets a cold, dense air mass.
What is the warm, moist air mass?
This global wind belt is located between 30 degrees north and 60 degrees north latitude.
What are the Westerlies?
What is a hurricane?
This is what happens to the temperature in the troposphere as as altitude increases.
What is decrease?
Weather systems move in this general direction on a U.S. weather map.
What is West to East?
Clouds and precipitation commonly form along frontal boundaries for this reason.
What is the upward movement of air, causing expansion, cooling, and condensation?
This is why air rises at the equator and sinks near 30 degrees (north or south).
What is intense solar heating at the equator that causes air to rise, and cools and sinks at 30 degrees latitude?
This type of weather event is powered by heat energy released by the ocean.
What is a hurricane.
This is why the stratosphere gets warmer with increasing altitude.
What are greenhouse gases?
A weather map shows a low-pressure system with closely spaced isobars over the Midwest.
These two weather conditions are most likely occurring in that area.
What are strong winds and stormy weather?
Of two cities on either side of a boundary between mT and cP air masses, this city would experience rain first.
What is the city nearest the front on the warm, moist air side.
What is loses energy?
This is why hurricanes with lower air pressures are linked to higher wind speeds.