Convection Currents
What is Sinks?
As air masses cool, they become denser and sink toward the Earth's surface.
What is High Pressure?
If a high pressure system moves into the area, what type of weather would be occurring?
What is Happy? What is clear skies with the sun out?
A hurricane would have what type of air pressure associated with it?
What is Low Pressure?
What would a Tropical Storm in Asia be called?
What is a Typhoon?
Hot air/liquid is less dense, so it __________.
What is Rises?
As air masses warm, they become less dense and rise above the Earth's surface.
What is Low Pressure?
If a low pressure system moves into the area, what type of weather would be occurring?
What is Lousy? or What is cloudy stormy skies?
When is Peak Hurricane season for us in the USA?
What is June-November?
What causes the most deaths in a Hurricane?
What is the Storm Surge?
What heats the Earth's Surface to cause convection?
What is the Sun?
This is a breeze that flows from cool air above land to warmer air above the water.
What is a Land Breeze?
This type of front is associated with a blue line with triangles when looking at a Weather Map.
What is a Cold Front?
What is the Warm Ocean Water that is heated by the Sun?
If Maritime means Water; then Continental would mean __________.
What is Land?
Occurs when heat energy transfers between two parts of a fluid of different temperatures.
What is Convection?
This gentle wind flows from the cool air over water to the warm air over the land.
What is a Sea Breeze?
This type of front is associated with a red line that has semi-circles on it when looking at a weather map.
At what wind speed does a storm become a hurricane?
What is 74 mph or 119 km/hr?
Where do hurricanes form?
What is off of the Equator?
Convection currents can happen when boiling liquid, in the mantle, and the ocean. Where else can these currents take place?
What is in the air?
** Double Jeopardy **
Does air move from high to low pressure or low to high pressure? AND what does this create?
What is high to low pressure and wind?
This type of front has both red semi-circles and blue triangles along the edges. This front will produce light rain over several days because it isn't strong enough to move.
What is a Stationary Front?
What is the Wind Speeds?
This is a large body of air that sits over the land (Continental) and water (Maritime).
What is an Air Mass?