CURRENTS
WEATHER PATTERNS
AIR MASSES
WATER CYCLE
VOCABULARY WORDS
100

The most likely phenomenon responsible for the currents circular pattern is?

What is the Coriolis Effect

100

The energy source that drives all weather pattern is?

What is the sun

100

In winter when cold air passes over large bodies of warm water, moisture is lifted up. As the air rises quickly over land what occurs? 

What is precipitation generally occurs

100

Monica had water in a pan. She placed on pan in the sun for 12 hours aand one in a shady spot. She eturned and measured the water in both pans. What most likely happened to the water in the pans? 

What is more water evaporated from the pan left in the sun

100

meteorologist

Who is a scientist who studies and predicts the weather

200

What is the major cause of the ocean waves?

What is the wind

200

What has a curved line on a map and shows air pressure?

What is a ISOBAR

200

The jet stream during spring moved southward across Texas and northernFlorida. How would weather in North Carolina compare to that of a typical year?

What is cooler and dryer

200

Toxic runoff can pollute a stream and what else?

What is pollute ground

200

stationary front

What occurs when two air masses meet  meet but neither can move the other.

300

The main source for deep ocean currents that move large volumes of water is?

What is radiation from the sun

300

What are 5 characteristics that Meteorologists look at to determine weather? 

What is temperature, wind, air pressure, humidity and precipitation.

300

Over the Gulf of Mexico a stationary air mass would typically be?

What is warm and humid

300

What stage of water cycle is shown from the ocean to the clouds

What is the sun heating ocean water causing some to evaporate.

300

air mass

What is a huge body of air that has similar temperature, humidity, air pressure at any. given height

400

What causes the air masses above them to become warmer?

What is Warm ocean currents

400

What has a curved line on a map but shows temperature?

What is a ISOTHERM

400

A warm air mass over the ocean wwould most likely cause what?

what is rainfall

400

What occurs when water vapor changes into warm water?

What is Condensation

400

Precipitation

What is any form of water that falls from the clouds and reaches the Earths surface.

500

What do these currents affect in change?

What is the precipitation, temperature and also affect wind speed and direction

500

Who uses data and technology to predict the future of the weather?

Who is a meterologist

500

What kind of front occurs hen 2 air masses meet but neither can move another?

What is a stationary front

500

What is it called when something is always moving between the surface of the Earth and the atmosphere. 

What is called the water cycle.

500

Water Cycle

What is always moving between the surface of the Earth and the atmosphere.

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