Weather
Climate
Predicting Weather
Severe Storms
Miscellaneous
100
The continuous movement of water between Earth's surface and the air
What is the water cycle?
100
Moss is a plant found here
What is in the tundra?
100
Clouds that produce thunderstorms.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
100
Violent disturbance in the atmosphere
What is a storm?
100
Measures air pressure with the millibar as the unit of measurement.
What is a barometer?
200
0 degree Celsius
What is freezing point on a thermometer?
200
Cold front
What is rapidly moving cold air mass that overtakes a slow moving warm air mass?
200
Clouds that form at a high altitude and are feathery
What are cirrus clouds?
200
Difference between anticyclone and cyclone
What is the direction of the winds?
200
Banning chlorofluorocarbons will
What is restoring the ozone layer?
300
Winds are caused by differences in
What is air pressure?
300
Warm air mass and a cold air mass meet, neither move the other
What is a stationary front?
300
Clouds form when
What is water vapor in the air becomes liquid water or ice crystals?
300
Tilting of Earth's axis as Earth revolves around the sun cause
What is season?
300
Sea and land breezes over a large region that change direction with the season are
What are monsoons?
400
Psychometer
What measure relative humidity?
400
The two main factors that determine the climate.
What are temperature and precipitation?
400
Places on a weather map that have the same temp are connected by
What is an isotherm?
400
Summers are caused by
What is a combo of longer days and more direct rays from the sun?
400
Weather associated with anticyclone is
What is a dry and clear?
500
The Earth's rotation makes global winds curve
What is the Coriolis Effect?
500
In US air masses are moved by these two
What are jet streams and prevailing westerlies ?
500
The process by which gasses hold heat in the atmosphere
What is a the greenhouse effect?
500
Radiation is caused by the
What is the sun?
500
Solar radiation heats Earth's atmosphere unevenly. This sets up convection currents as heat is transformed through the layers
What are jet streams?
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