What is to collect data either from direct observation or through the use of instruments?
100
__________ are lines joining areas of equal air pressure and ____________ are lines that join areas of equal temperature.
What are isobars and isotherms?
100
When it is __________ in the northern hemisphere it is ________ in the southern hemisphere.
What is winter in the northern hemisphere and summer in the southern hemisphere OR summer in the northern hemisphere and winter in the southern hemisphere.
100
Scientists use _________ and _________ to describe climate of a region.
What are temperature and precipitation.
100
Wind hits the _________ side of a mountain and does NOT hit the __________ side of a mountain.
What is the windward side and the leeward side?
200
Meteorologist
Who is a scientist that study the causes of weather and try to predict it?
200
__________ are the symbol for cold fronts and __________ are the symbol for warm fronts.
What are blue triangles for cold fronts and red half (semi) circles for warm fronts?
200
This is the reason for the seasons.
What is the tilt of the axis?
200
___________ climates have mild summers and winters; and __________ climates have hot summers and cold winters.
What are marine climates and continental climates
200
______________ are local sea and land breezes that bring huge rainstorms to Asia and the South Pacific, and change directions with the seasons.
What are monsoons?
300
The two improvements in technology that have improved the accuracy of weather forecasts.
What are satellites and computers.
300
Standard symbols, not weather stations, on weather maps show ________, __________, ___________, and ___________.
What are fronts, areas of high and low pressure, temperature, and types of precipitation.
300
When the Earth is tilted towards the Sun it is ___________ in the northern hemisphere and _________ in the southern hemisphere.
What is summer and winter
300
____________, ___________, ____________, and ___________ are the main factors that influence temperature.
What are latitude, altitude, distance from large bodies of water, and ocean currents?
300
_________, _________, and __________ are the three main factors that affect precipitation.
What are prevailing winds, seasonal winds, and the presence of mountains?
400
Meteorologists use ____________, _____________, and _____________ to analyze weather data and to prepare weather forecasts.
What are maps, charts, and computers?
400
During _________ and __________ is when both hemispheres receive the same amount of the Sun's energy because _______________________________________.
What is spring (March) or fall (September) because the Earth is not tilted towards or away from the Sun?
400
__________, ____________, ___________ are the three temperature zones shown by latitude.
What are polar, temperate, and tropical.
400
This is the reason why the windward side has precipitation and the leeward side of a mountain has little precipitation. (Explain)
What is because prevailing warm moist wind that blows from the ocean hits the windward side of the mountain and is forced up. It then condenses and drops precipitation before it reaches the leeward side, or backside, of the mountain.
500
___________, ___________, and __________ collect data that is analyzed by _____________.
What are satellites, weather balloons, and weather stations collect data that computers analyze?
500
At least 4 things indicated by weather station symbols on a weather map.
What are front locations, pressure, cloud cover, wind speed, wind direction, and temperature?
500
The distance between the Earth and the Sun ____________ in the summer compared to being ___________ in the winter.
What is farther from the sun during the summer and closer to the Sun during the winter.
500
________________ transfer heat throughout the waters of the Earth, and the ____________ flows north up the east coast of the US and across the North Atlantic to Ireland.