Fronts
A warm air mass moves over a cold air mass.
What is a Warm Front?
As you climb up a mountain, this happens to air pressure
What is DECREASES?
A spinning cloud with a funnel shape.
What is a TORNADO?
A scientist who studies weather and uses instruments to predict what the weather will be.
What is a METEOROLOGIST?
Used to see images of cloud patterns and movement. (Not rainfall)
What is a SATELLITE?
The type of precipitation that comes with a COLD FRONT?
What is a thunderstorm?
The type of weather that comes with HIGH PRESSURE.
What is Happy, FAIR WEATHER?
The place where a hurricane forms.
What is a WARM OCEAN?
The instrument used to measure the amount of precipitation.
What is a RAIN GAUGE?
During the day, land heats up and the hot air rises and causes this type of breeze at the beach.
What is a sea breeze?
A line on a weather map with BOTH red circles and blue triangles.
What is a Stationary Front?
What is COUNTER-CLOCKWISES?
The center of a hurricane.
What is the EYE?
What is an ANEMOMETER?
Warm air rises and then cools and sinks.
What is a CONVECTION CURRENT?
A line on a weather map with PURPLE triangles and circles.
What is an OCCLUDED FRONT?
The symbol on a weather map for High Pressure.
What is a BLUE capital H?
The strongest category of a hurricane.
What is Category 5?
The instrument used to measure AIR PRESSURE?
What is a BAROMETER?
What is the Coriolis effect?
The type of front that usually brings RAIN FOR DAYS!
What is a STATIONARY FRONT?
The type of map that connects areas of equal air pressure.
What is an ISOBAR MAP?
2 other names for a Hurricane?
What are CYCLONE and TYPHOON?
The direction wind is blowing from when a Wind Vane is pointing to the NORTH?
What is NORTH?
The average weather conditions of a general area.
What is CLIMATE?