Vocabulary 1
visual representation of the movement of weather conditions
What is weather map?
what is weather front?
What is warm, cold, stationary, occluded?
What are two characteristics that describe air masses?
What is moisture and temperature?
Air masses formed closer to the poles
What is polar?
brings heavy rain
What is warm front?
Is the measure of how much water vapor is in the air
True or False
What is False?
Water or land
What is moisture?
the _______ of an air mass tells whether an air mass was formed close to the equator or pole
What is second word?
brings a line of showers or thunderstorms
What is cold front?
produced by thunderstorms
What is tornado?
blue arrows point in the direction it is traveling
what is cold front?
Equator or pole
What is temperature?
Moist warm air
What is maritime tropical?
Scientific attempt to make accurate predictions of future weather and weather patterns
What is hurricane?
How do meterologists gather weather data without technology?
What is direct observations?
Air masses formed over land
What is continental polar?
Large body of air
What is air mass?
Agency that protects humans and the environment
purple triangles and semi circles point in the direction of front movement
What is occluded front?
Air masses formed over near the equator?
What is tropical?
What moves air masses?
What is wind?