A dense air mass that moves quickly and causes sudden storms or cooler weather.
What is a cold front?
100
EPA
What is the organization that monitors air quality?
100
Satellites gather images
Radar detects cloud movement and precipitation
Computers generate models and maps
What are the steps to weather forecasting
100
The puffy white, cotton ball cloud.
What is a cumulus cloud?
100
Low pressure
What is pressure along a cold front?
200
A slowly moving air mass that brings warm and humid air in the summer and snow during the winter.
What is a warm front?
200
The transfer of heat from place to place
What is convection?
200
Jet streams bring cold air masses from the north and warm air masses from the south.
How do jet streams affect air masses?
200
These clouds are made up of mostly ice crystals because they are so high in the sky.
What are cirrus clouds?
200
A rapidly whirling, funnel-shaped cloud, that can reach out from the clouds and touch the Earth's surface causing a lot of damage.
What is a tornado?
300
This is what happens when a warm front and a cold front meet in the atmosphere and neither one is strong enough to move the other.
What is a stationary front?
300
Wind and currents that move to the right in the Northern Hemisphere
What is Coriolis Effect?
300
An attempt to predict the weather
What is weather forecasting?
300
These clouds are notorious for causing Thunderstorms.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
300
A rotating collection of cumulonimbus clouds that form over warm ocean water
What a hurricane?
400
This is the most complex weather situation and often results in a warm air mass to be surrounded by two cooler air masses. These masses mingle and mix and the weather turns cloudy, rainy, or snowy.
What is an occluded front?
400
Steady flow of ocean water
What is the Gulf Stream?
400
Temperature, humidity, air pressure, wind speed
What do weather forecast tell us?
400
These clouds are like a blanket across the sky and sit in the middle area.
What are stratus clouds?
400
Energy resource from the ancient remains of plants and animals
What is fossil fuels?
500
When a cold front catches up with a warm front and merges with the cold front in front of the warm front.
What is occluded front?
500
Pulls cold or warm weather north and south
What is jet stream?
500
Radar can detect precipitation and satellites can take pictures of the weather
How can technology be used to predict the weather?
500
Form hurricanes
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
500
Makes water acidic and toxic to plants and animals