Atmosphere
Air Pressure
Wind
Precipitation
Masses and Fronts
100
The most abundant gas in Earth's atmosphere
What is Nitrogen?
100

The force that pushes airplanes up

What is a lift?

100
The starting location of a land breeze.
What is land?
100
The most common type of precipitation.
What is rain?
100
A body of air with the same temperature, pressure, and relative humidity. 
What is an air mass?
200
The second most abundant gas in Earth's atmosphere.
What is oxygen?
200

A unit used to measure air pressure.

What is millibars (mb) 

or inches of Mercury 

or mm of Mercury?

200
The location with higher air pressure when a land breeze blows.
What is the land?
200
The type of precipitation that skips the liquid phase.
What is snow?
200
The boundary between a fast moving warm air mass and a slower cold air mass.
What is a warm front?
300

The layer of the atmosphere where weather occurs.

What is the troposphere?

300
Air pressure moves from areas of_____ pressure to _____ pressure.
What is High to Low?
300

The effect of the rotation of Earth on Global winds.

What is the Coriollis Effect? (Winds generally curve East to West)

300

The phase change that forms clouds.

What is condensation?

300

The front that brings thunderstorms.

What is a cold front?

400

The main heat source of the atmosphere.

What is the Sun?

400
The relative speed of low pressure air.
What is fast?
400

The driving force causing land and sea breezes to blow.

What is uneven heating?

400

The relative humidity during precipitation.

What is 100%?

400
The front that brings long lasting rain.
What is a warm front?
500

The warmest part of the troposphere.

What is the lowest part (near the ground)?

500

The direction Low pressure air moves.

What is counterclockwise and rising?

500

The name of the global wind over the continental United States (not on the test)

Prevailing Westerlies (West to East)

500

The relationship between air temperature and dew point for precipitation to form.

What is the same?

500

The direction fronts move across the United States.

What is West to East?

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