What causes weather?
Weather Fronts
Pressure Systems
Clouds and Precipitation
Severe Weather
100
All weather can be traced to the effect of...
What is the Sun's radiation?
100
When two air masses collide.
What is a front?
100
A sea breeze is when cooler ocean air flows towards the land during the __________________.
What is nighttime?
100
This is how much water vapor is in the air at any given time, but no one really uses this measurement.
What is a Humidity?
100
A funnel-shaped cloud that reaches down from a storm cloud to touch the Earth’s surface.
What is a tornado?
200
This type of air can hold more water than cold air, because it is more energetic and moving around more?
What is warm/hot air or a gas?
200
When cold air is pushing warm air out of the way and the temperature outside drops.
What is a cold front?
200
This type of breeze blows from the land towards the water during the night.
What is land breeze?
200
Water vapor sticks to this to form clouds.
What is a Dust, hair, pollution, etc.?
200
The most common type of severe weather.
What is a thunderstorm?
300
This is created when high pressure areas combine with low pressure areas.
What is wind?
300
This front raises temperature and makes it humid in an area.
What is a warm front?
300
Cloudy, stormy skies with heavy winds describes this type of pressure system.
What is a low-pressure system?
300
Water changing to gas is called....
What is evaporation?
300
A period of time when an area experiences below-normal precipitation, leading to a shortage of water supply.
What is a drought?
400
When fluids, like air and water, transfer heat through a rising and falling pattern (Conduction, Radiation and....)
What is a convection current?
400
Conniston is experiencing a stationary front. The weather forecast most likely includes...
What is a few days of rain and wind?
400
The pressure system you hope for if you plan to go outdoors in very nice, sunny weather.
What is a high-pressure system?
400
When water vapor rises into the atmosphere, it cools. The water vapor then changes back into tiny water drops. This process is called
What is condensation?
400
Hurricanes form in tropical waters near the equator. They can not form in higher latitudes because the water is too _______.
What is cold?
500
This is how much water the air can hold, HOW MUCH WATER IS IN THE GLASS?
What is Relative Humidity?
500
You are interested in traveling to either Dallas, TX or Denver, CO. You decide to go to the city that has the LOWEST LOW temperature.
What is Denver?
500
A low pressure system just left your house, and now there is a high pressure system over your house. What type of weather is there when you go outside?
What is sunny, clear skies?
500
Starting with evaporation, warm moist air rises through the atmosphere, and the air cools. Then, condensation occurs. All of these steps describe how ____________ form.
What is a cloud?
500
The four types of precipitation.
What is rain, snow, hail, sleet, and freezing rain? (in any order) THERE'S ACTUALLY 5 BUT WE'RE FLORIDIANS