Air Pressure
Convection Currents
Weather
Severe Weather
Maps and Tools
100
The layer of the atmosphere closest to the surface of the earth, containing 99% of the air in the atmosphere
What is the troposphere?
100
Uneven heating of the earth's surfaces causes this
What is wind (or convection current)?
100
two properties that can describe air masses?
What are temperature and humidity?
100
electric charges building up in clouds and discharging cause this
What is lightning?
100
tool that measure wind speed, precipitation, AND wind direction
What is Doppler Radar?
200
The atmospheric layer in which weather occurs
What is troposphere?
200
Uneven heating of earth's atmosphere and earth's rotation on its axis causes this
What are global winds?
200
what forms when two air masses meet
What is a front?
200
Intense heat caused by lightning expanding the air causes this
What is thunder?
200
tool that shows data about recent weather conditions across a large area
What is a weather map?
300
Of increase or decrease, what happens to air pressure when you go higher in the atmosphere.
What is air pressure decreases?
300
How warm and cold air move in a convection current
What is warm air rises, cold air sinks?
300
Moving air masses usually bring this
What is a change in weather?
300
A violent tropical storm forming over warm ocean waters that contains a central eye
What is a hurricane?
300
tools on a weather map that show direction and location of weather patterns
What are weather symbols?
400
Air pressure at the top of a mountain compared to the base of the mountain
What is less pressure?
400
This aspect of earth causes differences in temperatures around the world
What is earth's shape?
400
the technical name for "weather man"
What is a meteorologist?
400
No precipitation or wind characterize this part of a hurricane
What is the eye?
400
factor that causes air in low and high pressure areas to move to the right
What is the rotation of Earth?
500
instrument used to measure air pressure
What is a barometer?
500
these types of currents transfer heat from one place to another and affect weather and climate
What are ocean currents?
500
the address for Eastshore school
What is 155 Eastshore?
500
weather systems generally move in this direction
What is west to east?
500
Your favorite teacher ever
Who is Mr. T???
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