air pressure and wind
weather tools
clouds
air masses and fronts
Winds and ocean currents
100

A wind that blows from land to sea.

What is a land breeze

100

What does a rain gauge measure?

What is precipitation?

100

When do clouds form?

When enough water droplets come together and are visible in the sky.

100

what always occurs at a front?

what is Precipitation

100

What are westerlies?

Westerlies are winds that blow west to east.

200

Wind that blows from sea to land.

What is a sea breeze

200

What does a wind vane measure?

What is wind direction.

200

What are the clouds that look like cotton balls in the sky?

Cumulus clouds

200

what is a warm front? 

A warm air mass approaches a cold air mass and slowly slides above it.

200

What is the jet stream?

A jet stream is a moving tube of air that flows west to east high above the u.s.

300

What weather does a low pressure area bring?

Warm,wet,cloudy,precipitation

300

What does an anemometer measure?

What is wind speed.

300

What is the wispy cloud made of ice crystals?

cirrus clouds

300

When two air masses meet it is called ?

what is a front.

300

What is a la nina?

 The unusual cooling of the water in the pacific ocean.

400

What weather does a high pressure system bring?

Cool,Clear,Dry,Fair

400

What does a barometer measure? 

What is air pressure.

400

What kind of cloud is fog?

Fog is stratus clouds touching earths surface.

400

What is a cold front?

 A cold front is when a cold air mass pushes under a warm air mass forcing the warm air up quickly.

400

What is the gulf stream?

The gulf stream is a warm ocean current that flows north from the equator along the eastern coast of the u.s.

500

Air likes to move from areas with______  air pressure to areas with______ Air pressure.

High to low areas

500

What does a hydrometer measure?

What is humidity.

500

Cumulonimbus clouds cause 

Thunderstorms

500

What kind of weather does an occluded front bring?

Strong winds and heavy rain.

500

witch ocean do El Ninos occur?

What is the pacific ocean.

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