Clouds and Layers
These make up clouds
What is water vapor ?
The Earth's rotation makes the wind curve.
What is the Coriolis effect?
The symbol for a cold front is a blue curved line with these shapes on it
What is are triangles?
I am found to circulate air at 30 N and S of the equator.
What is the Hadley Cell?
The severity of a hurricane is ranked uses these on the Saffir-Simpson scale.
What are categories?
We live in this atmospheric layer.
What is the troposphere?
This symbol is shown on a weather map -
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What is clear weather?
A curved red line with semi-circles on it is the symbol this type of weather.
What is a warm front?
This air moves very fast around the planet.
What is a jet stream?
I am a big storm that gets my energy from warm ocean waters.
What is a hurricane?
This layer is where meteors burn up.
What is the mesosphere?
This drawing shows the barometric pressure, sky cover, temperature, dew point, etc
What is a station model?
mT
What is maritime tropical?
Use this to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
The most common gas in the atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
We can hear this with the help of the AM frequency radio?
What is lightning?
The lines of 1045.5 mb and 1003.6 mb fluctuates over Washington, Montana, and Nebraska.
What are isobars?
A huge body of air that has similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure at any given height.
What is an air mass?
I am a system responsible for moving air clockwise and allow for blue skies
What is a high pressure system?
The gas layer that has the ability to trap heat in the atmosphere. It is found in the stratosphere.
What is ozone?
These clouds form and make big thunderstorms.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
This climate has a very high dry and warm air with very little humidity.
What is a desert?
A pair of air masses, neither of which is strong enough to replace the other for this boundary.
What is stationary front?
This person uses tools to predict the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
This is the trait a gas has that contributes to the green house effect.
What is trapping heat??