Vocabulary
Green House Gases
Fronts
Tornadoes
Zones
100
a boundary between air masses with different temperatures
What is a front?
100
when liquid turns into a gas
What is water vapor?
100
cold, denser air moves in under a region of warm air
What is a cold front?
100
the strong, swirling winds
What is a funnel cloud?
100
sparse precipitation
What is the polar zone?
200
the average weather pattern of a region
What is climate?
200
cows manuer
What is methane?
200
cold, air mass and a warm air mass may meet and remain over an area for days
What is a stationary front?
200
the south and midwest
Where do most tornadoes occur in the United States?
200
we get ample precipitation
What is the temperate zone?
300
when Earth's amount of energy gained balances the energy lost
What is radiative balance?
300
what we breathe
What is oxygen?
300
warm air moves into a region, rising up and over the colder air mass that is already there
What is a warm front?
300
tornadoes that form over water
What is a waterspout?
300
Abundant rainfall
What is the tropical zone?
400
an unmoving front where a cold air mass and a warm air mass meet
What is a stationary front?
400
what we exhale
What is carbon dioxide?
400
the air behind the incoming cold front is just cool, not cold and the air in front of it may be cold
What is a warm front occlusion?
400
after you leave your car
What is lie face down in a ditch?
400
cold, dry air
What is continental polar (cP)?
500
a great rise of the sea along a shore
What is a storm surge?
500
when the atmosphere keeps the Earth warmer than it would otherwise be
What is greenhouse effect?
500
when a cold and a warm front meet
What is an occluded front?
500
the scarecrow, lion, and tinman
Who were Dorothy's friends in the Wizard of Oz?
500
warm, moist air
What is maritime tropical (mT)?
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