Air Masses and Fronts
storms/clouds
Forecasting/Maps
Sun and Wind
Misc.
100
What front gives precipitation for a few days
stationary
100
These storms have an unpredictable path.
What is a tornado
100
This type of cloud coverage and precipitation is indicated by two dots and a 1/2 shaded circle
What is partly cloudy and light rain
100
What determines an areas climate?
Unequal heating of the Earth
100
A boundary between 2 air masses, one cold and one warm, where warm air replaces the cold
What is a warm front
200
The layers of gases that surround the Earth.
What is the atmosphere
200
What happens to the temperature as you go up in the troposphere?
It gets colder
200
This type of pressure system is indicated by a clear, sunny day.
What is a high pressure system
200
What is another name for the precipitation known as ice pellets?
Hail
200
This weather tool is used to detect cloud cover, rainfall and tornado formation.
What is radar
300
What does a relative humidity of 75% mean?
The atmosphere is holding 75% of what it is able to hold at the current temperature.
300
What is the cloud word that means rain
Nimbus or nimbo
300
On a weather map, this type of front is indicated by a line with solid triangles
What is a cold front
300
If the wind moves clockwise in a HIGH pressure system, what direction does the wind move in a LOW pressure system.
Counterclockwise
300
This front has three air masses moving in the same direction; cold, warm and cool air.
What is occluded
400
A boundary between two air masses that results in a cold air mass pushing into a warm air mass and the warmer air is pushed above the cooler air mass.
What is a cold front
400
This is a tropical cyclone that has winds of 119 kilometers per hour or higher.
What is a hurricane.
400
How does a sling psychrometer measure relative humidity?
water moves from the wet bulb to the dry bulb causing the dry bulb temperature to change.
400
What did the soil, sand, air and water Solar Lab teach us about how the ocean heats up compared to the land?
The ocean heats up and releases heat slower than the land.
400
The Atlantic water is warmer than the Pacific because of this.
Surface currents bring warm water toward the Atlantic and cool water towards the Pacific
500
A body of air which has the same characteristics of temperature and moisture.
What is an air mass
500
This cloud can look like fluffy cotton balls. If they are not tall, they indicate fair weather.
What are cumulus clouds
500
The tail on the weather station model represents what?
what direction and speed the wind is coming from
500
This is the reason for a strong breeze coming in from the ocean during a sunny day.
The land warms up faster than the water causing a sea breeze.
500
This is the name of a low pressure tropical storm that forms over warm ocean water.
What is a hurricane
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