Water Cycle/Weather Tools
Clouds
Air Masses and Fronts
Global Weather Paterns
Mystry
100
This tool is used to measure wind speed
an anemometer
100
Low flat sheet like clouds
stratus
100
What are the 4 types of air masses?
Continental tropical continental polar maritime tropical maritime polar
100
Explain how the prevailing westerlies affect weather patterns in North America.
move weather west to east
100
Explain how wind forms.
Wind is formed by uneven heating on earth, which causes differences in air pressure.
200
What happens when water is changed from a gas to liquid?
condensation
200
Clouds that produced thunderstorms
cumulonimbus clouds
200
What forms when two different air masses meet?
a front
200
Describe the temperature patterns in areas in the mid latitudes.
4 seasons- hot summers, cold winters
200
What type of weather would most likely occur in high pressure areas?
clear skies, fair weather
300
When your barometer reading is dropping what happens to the weather
Lower pressure=lowsy weather
300
What type of cloud forms at a cold front?
Cumulus clouds change into cumulonimbus clouds to produce thunderstorms
300
A cold air mass bumps against a warm air mass, what can we expect the weather to be?
colder with thunderstorms
300
When this moves above North Carolina we will see warmer weather.
Jet stream
300
Explain why there is a division of climates on Earth.
The sun heats the earth unevenly causes different climate zones
400
What drives the water cycle?
Energy from the sun
400
What type of clouds form at a warm front?
Stratus clouds
400
What can we expect to happen if a stationary front moves into the area?
Rain for days
400
What global condition causes droughts in the Southeastern part of the United States
La nina
400
Explain the direction wind always blows
wind blows from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure
500
How are transpiration and evaporation similar?
both change liquid water to a gas
500
How do clouds change when a cold front produces precipitation?
Cumulus clouds form at a cold front and change into cumulonimbus clouds when it is thunderstorming
500
What happens to the temperature when a warm air mass replaces a cold air mass?
temperature rises
500
What does high pressure over land and low pressure over the sea create?
A land breeze
500
Why would people on the East coast be concerned about La nina forming in the Pacific ocean?
it will decrease precipitation levels
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