This energy transfer interacts with water and wind and makes the weather-
What is solar radiation?
100
A humid air mass that forms over the ocean-
What is Maritime-
100
An instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure-
What is a barometer?
100
A blue symbol with triangles depicting an air mass moving into an area-
What is a cold front?
100
It is whats caused by the interaction of the air, water and SUN-
What is the current state of the atmosphere-Weather?
200
The Sun strikes these at an angle scaterring the energy-
What are the poles?
200
Air mass that forms over the cold tundra-
What is Continental Polar?
200
A Measured amount of water vapor in the air compared to the amount needed for total saturation-
What is RELATIVE humidity?
200
This symbol is used to indicate two air mass of different properties not moving AND lond periods of steady rain will be likely-
What is a stationary front?
200
Large body of air that takes on similiar characteristics of the earth's surface it formed over-
What is an air mass?
300
As the earth rotates, winds will swirl in a predictable pattern making our global winds curve-
What is Coriolis Effect?
300
Atmospheric pressure that is less dense because vapor is evaporating and condensing-
What is Low Pressure?
300
A measured amount of energy (kinetic) that particles have-
What is Temperature?
300
On a map, this symbol is used to indicate clear skies and dense air-
What is a capital H?
300
A person who specializes in the study, and forcasting of weather-
What is a meteorologist (or Mrs. Fischer :)?
400
A process that changes water vapor into the liquid state-
What is condensation?
400
A process that causes air to rise and sink due to uneven heating making wind is called-
What is convection currents?
400
This intrument measures how much vapor is in the air-
What is psychrometer or hygrometer?
400
when lines are closely spaced on weather map, they indicate this-
What are high winds?
400
This takes much longer to heat and cool compared to other things on the earth-
What is water/ocean?
500
this is a term used to desrcibe all the water that falls from the sky in any form-
What is precipitation?
500
The two factors used to describe the different air masses as they form-
What is Temperature and Humidity?
500
The one property of air that causes cold fronts to force warmer air up quickly-
What is density?
500
Lines on a weather map connecting points of equal pressure-
What are isobars?
500
As air cools, water molecules in air move closer together, and collide making a state change from a gas state to a liquid state- this what kind of change (physical or chemical)?