Winds
The cause of the Coriolis Effect
What is Earth's rotation?
An air mass over the ocean is called ________.
This type of storm is associated with tornadoes.
What is a thunderstorm?
The weather instrument that measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
A cold air mass displaces a warm air mass.
What is a cold front?
The wind belt between 60 degrees North and South and the Poles.
What is Polar Easterlies?
Continental Polar air masses have what characteristics?
What is cold and dry?
A large, low-pressure, rotating storm that gets energy from the ocean.
What is a Hurricane?
The weather device used to measure relative humidity.
What is a psychrometer?
A warm air mass displaces a cold air mass.
What is a warm front?
The wind belt between the Equator and 30 degrees north and south.
What are Trade Winds?
The name of the air mass that has warm and moist/humid characteristics.
What is Maritime Tropical?
A whirling column of air in contact with the clouds and the ground.
What is a tornado?
The air is HALF way filled with water vapor. The relative humidity would be __________.
What is 50%?
Two air masses meet but neither moves into the other's territory.
What is a stationary front?
The wind belt that affects weather in the U.S. and is between 30 and 60 degrees North and South.
What are Prevailing Westerlies?
All air masses have these 2 characteristics in common.
What is temperature and humidity?
This type of disaster kills more people than any other.
What is Flooding or Flash Floods?
The measure of how much water vapor is in the air COMPARED TO how much the air can hold.
The type of front when a warm front is overtaken by a cold air mass trapping warm air above cold air.
What is an occluded front?
What is the name of the two areas where there is little to no wind?
What are Doldrums and Horse Latitudes.
Maritime Polar air masses share these 2 characteristics.
Cold and Humid/Moist
Name the 3 stages in thunderstorm formation.
What is cumulus, mature, and dissipation?
A record of weather data at a certain time and at a certain place.
What is a station model?
All fronts can effect the __________.
What is weather?