Air Quality and Pollution
A chart showing the different air qualities.
What is the air quality index?
Localized, short-term changes in the atmosphere.
What is weather?
A downpour of rain, usually with lightning.
What is a thunderstorm?
Advancing mass of warm air over cold air.
What is a warm front?
Measures the air temperature.
What is a thermometer?
The presence of a harmful substance in the air.
What is air pollution?
Long term, significant, and global changes in the atmosphere.
What is climate?
A slow-moving tropical storm with high-speed winds, usually forms over oceans.
What is a hurricane?
Advancing mass of cold air over warm air.
What is a cold front?
Measures the amount of rainfall in a place over a specific time period.
What is a rain gauge?
Based on the number of pollutants in the air, this is determined.
What is air quality?
Narrow bands of wind that encircle the Earth.
What are jet streams?
An overflow of water.
What is a flood?
Two warm and cold air masses collide and cannot move either way.
What is a stationary front?
Measures the direction from which the wind is blowing.
What is a wind vane?
A person who studies the chemicals in the air and how they react to each other.
What is an atmospheric chemist?
A strong ocean current that brings warm water into the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Gulf Stream?
A long funnel of spiraling destructive high-speed winds.
What is a tornado?
A warm air mass caught between 2 colder air masses.
What is an occluded front?
Measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
Wildfires are sending up motes of smoke and scattering the red and orange wavelengths, causing this phenomenon.
What are orange skies?
The names of the 3 jet streams.
What are the Polar, Ferral, and Hadley jet streams?
A storm causing lots of snow and low visibility and freezing.
What is a blizzard?
The occluded front's symbol
What is interchanging purple triangles and half-circles, facing the same way?
Measures atmospheric pressure, usually used when forecasting the weather and determining altitude.
What is the barometer?