What type of weather is associated with a warm front?
Warm and rainy.
What is an air mass?
Large area of air with the same temperature and moisture.
This is when air molecules touch a surface to heat the object.
What is conduction?
Most abundant gas in the Earth's atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen?
This map can be used to show the ______.
Weather
What weather is associated with a cold front?
Cold dry air
What type of weather comes with a high-pressure system?
Happy! Calm, dry, sunny, clear
This is when warm air rises and sinks when it cools.
What is convection?
% of Nitrogen in the Earth's Atmosphere.
What is 78%?
Which city is having rainy weather?
Los Angeles
Which direction is this front moving and why?
South, towards the equator because the “icicles” are pointing that way.
What type of weather comes with a low-pressure system?
Precipitation! Cloudy, rainy, windy, wet.
Air flows from ________ pressure to ________ pressure.
High pressure to Low pressure.
What is the main reason for the climate differences in Maine vs. Florida?
Their Latitude (location on Earth). Florida is near the equator.
What does this symbol show?
Stationary Front
True or False: Temperature, humidity, and pressure are basically the same all through an air mass.
True!
True or False: When a high- and a low-pressure air mass are far apart, air moves slowly from high to low pressure.
True!
This layer has the most air pressure.
What is troposphere?
True or False: Oceans have an effect on Climate. Cool ocean air causes a cool climate. Warm ocean air causes a warm climate. Humid ocean air can bring rain/fog to the land.
True!
What type of front causes rain showers to continue over a particular area for several days?
What is a Stationary Front?
Give two words to describe the weather conditions for a tropical, continental air in the summer.
Hot and sunny.
Give one effect of the Gulf Stream.
Warm climates in Northern Europe.
What is radiation?
Sunlight that travels through space.
What causes a stationary front? Which direction is the stationary front moving?
When a cold front meets a warm front.
None, it’s stationary