Fronts
The type of front that brings warmer weather and light precipitation.
What is a warm front?
An area that has similar weather patterns.
What is a climate zone?
Climate factor that depends on how far north or south of the equator the location is and temperatures decrease the farther away from the equator you live.
What is Latitude?
What is it called when one side of a mountain is dry and the other is wet?
What is the Rain Shadow Effect.
What is the weather?
The type of front that brings colder weather with thunderstorms.
What is the cold front?
What is climate?
Climate factor that depends on the distance of a place above sea level, temperature general decrease as elevation increases.
What is elevation?
This alert comes when a tornado has been spotted or formed.
What is a Tornado Warning?
Cheniqua measured how much precipitation Gillette has gotten for 15 years. What she measuring weather or climate?
What is Climate?
The type of front that causes weather to stay in an area for multiple days.
What is a stationary front?
Climate zone that is classified as being warm and typically wet.
What is the Tropical?
Climate factor that depends on warmer currents spreading warmer air and cooler currents spreading cooler air over land
What is Ocean Currents?
This alert comes when all the right ingredients are present for a tornado, but one isn't seen.
What is called a tornado watch?
If I see fronts on a map, is it showing me the climate or weather?
What is weather?
The type of front that causes heavy precipitation and strong winds.
What is an occluded front?
Climate zone that is classified as having nice temperatures between 80-30 and medium amounts of precipitation.
What is Moderate?
Climate factor that affects climate because water temperature rises and falls much more slowly than land or air temperatures.
What is Distance from Water?
What is it called when hot water rises and cold water falls?
What is convection?
What are lines of equal pressure that help us determine wind speed?
What is isobars?
The type of front that happens when a warm front hits a cold front.
What is an occluded front?
Climate Zone that is classified as Cold and Dry
What is Polar?
Climate Factor that are winds that blow steadily in a specific direction and affect the temperature and amount of moisture an area receives.
What is Global Winds?
What is the name of Ms. Kienzle's Cat?
Climate is
What is long-term weather patterns.