Weather
Climate
Predicting Weather
Air Masses
Miscellaneous
100
The continuous movement of water between Earth's surface and the air
What is the water cycle?
100
A weather pattern of hot summers, cold winters, and low annual precipitation.
What is a continental climate?
100
Clouds that produce precipitation.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
100
Continental means the air mass comes from _______ and Maritime means that the air mass comes from _______.
What are land and water?
100
Measures air pressure with the millibar as the unit of measurement.
What is a barometer?
200
The changing of gas to a liquid as heat is removed
What is condensation?
200
The average weather pattern over a region.
What is climate?
200
Clouds that form at a high altitude and are blanket-like
What are cirrostratus clouds?
200
A continental polar air mass would come from _______ and brings _______ weather.
What are land/poles and cold/dry?
200
The effect of altitude on temperature.
What is a cooler temperatures?
300
The temperature at which moisture in the atmosphere condenses because the air is saturated.
What is the dew point?
300
The distance north or south of the equator.
What is latitude?
300
A large region of the atmosphere in which the air has similar properties throughout.
What is an air mass?
300
The difference in a Maritime Tropical and Continental Polar air mass.
What are water vs air and warm vs cold characteristics?
300
Latitude, large bodies of water, altitude, and ocean currents.
What are the 4 factors that affect climate?
400
The force exerted on a given area by the weight of the air above it
What is air pressure?
400
The two main factors that determine the climate.
What are temperature and precipitation?
400
When warm air moves in over a cold air mass and brings light steady rain or snow.
What is a warm front?
400
The 4 different air masses.
What are Continental Polar, Continental Tropical, Maritime Polar, Maritime Tropical?
400
Is caused by a difference in air pressure between 2 different air masses.
What is a wind?
500
The Earth's rotation pushes the winds to either the right or the left.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
500
Warm summers, mild winters, and usually high annual precipitation.
What is a maritime climate?
500
A tiny event can turn into a large one later, for example, a small change in the weather today can lead to a large change in the weather next week.
What is the butterfly effect?
500
A front where a warm air mass meets a cold air mass and neither has enough energy to move the other.
What is a stationary front?
500
The effect of a large body of water on the climate of a coastal region.
What is warmer winters and cooler summers? (water takes longer to heat up and cool down)
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