physics
Weather Maps
Winds
pressure systems
Fronts
100
pressure
Force per area
100
A map that shows high and low pressure systems.
A sea level pressure map.
100
A global wind that blows from the east at the poles.
What is a polar easterly?
100
When the air cold and clear and moves clockwise.
A high pressure system.
100
When two air masses meet.
What is a front.
200
millibars or pascals
What are two ways of measuring pressure
200
A warm front
What is a red line with semicircles on a weather map?
200
A global wind that blows from the west and makes Seattle rainy.
What is the Westerlies.
200
The other name for a high pressure system.
What is a cyclone.
200
When a cold air mass collides with a warm air mass
What is a cold front?
300
Pressure operates in all directions
Why aren't we pancakes.
300
Isobars
What are lines of equal pressure on a weather map?
300
The global winds that blow north and south of the equator.
What are the Trade Winds.
300
When the air move inward in a counterclockwise direction.
What is a low pressure system.
300
When a warm air mass collides with cold air mass.
What is a warm front.
400
Winds blow east and west because the earth spins.
What is the Coriolis effect
400
The places on earth where the most interesting weather happens.
What are fronts
400
The wind that blows from sea because the land is warmer than the ocean.
What is a sea breeze?
400
The golden rule of wind.
What is the rule that says that air always flows from high pressure to low pressure.
400
When large cumulus clouds are produced when cold air runs into warm air.
What is a cold front?
500
mercury and anaeroid
What are tools for measuring pressure.
500
The isobar lines on the weather map are close together.
How do we know when the pressure gradients are very steep?
500
The wind that blows at night from the land to the ocean because the land is colder than the ocean.
What is a land breeze?
500
A cold front.
What is a blue line with spikes on the weather map?
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