Vocabulary
Scientist who studies and predicts the weather.
Who is a meteorologist?
This air mass brings cool and dry air.
What is continental polar?
This is what happens to air over a warm ocean current.
what is the air also becomes warm?
This tool travels high into the atmosphere to collect data.
What is a weather balloon?
Name the two chambers of Congress
House of Representatives and Senate
This vocabulary word means "to combine."
What is synthesized?
When a cold air mass runs into and pushes up a warm air mass.
What is a cold front?
Besides the ocean currents moving warm or cold air what else moves air globally?
what is a jet stream?
This tool measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
Which branch makes Presidential appointments?
What is the legislative branch
The boundary where air masses meet.
what is a front?
This air mass bring humid and warm weather.
What is maritime tropical?
What does it mean when a barometer reading starts to decrease
what is a storm?
This weather map symbol is blue with triangles.
What is a cold front?
How can congress override a Presidential veto?
2/3 vote from each chamber
Lines on a weather map connecting areas with exact air pressure readings
What is isobar?
When cold and warm air masses meet but do not mix.
what is a stationary front?
TWO resources meteorologists predict weather
what is observation and weather tools?
This resource is a place that is collecting real time weather data.
What is a weather station?
What are the 5 themes of geography?
location, place, region, movement, human-environment interaction
Lines on a weather map connecting areas with exact or similar temperatures.
what is isotherm?
This air mass brings dry and warm weather.
What is continental tropical?
What is one of the two global patterns meteorologists track to help predict the weather?
what is jet stream OR ocean current?
This weather symbol contains red half circles and blue triangles.
What is a stationary front?
These are three South East Asian countries.
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