Vocabulary
Green House Gases
Fronts
Tornadoes
Zones
100
A boundary between air masses with different temperatures
What is a front?
100
this holds the heat in
What is a greenhouse?
100
a boundary
What is a front?
100
seek shelter
What is a tornado safety rule?
100
cold, dry air
What is Continental polar (cP)?
200
A large region of the atmosphere where the air has similar properties throughout
What is air mass?
200
chlorofluoracarbons abbreviation
What is CFC's?
200
a large region of the atmosphere where the air has similar properties
What is air mass?
200
storm cellar
What is the safest place to be (think about Dorothy)?
200
cool, moist air
What is Maritime polar (mP)?
300
a great rise of the sea along a shore
What is a storm surge?
300
We breath this out!
What is carbon dioxide?
300
a cold air mass and a warm air mass may meet and remain over an area for days without moving
What is a stationary front?
300
the shape of the swirling winds
What is a funnel cloud?
300
at high latitudes winters are long and cold while summers are sort and warm
What is the polar zone?
400
when Earth's amount of energy gained balances the energy lost
What is radiative balance?
400
when liquid turns into a gas
What is water vapor?
400
cold air moves in under a warm air mass
What is a cold front?
400
midwest and the south
What is where tornadoes mostly occur?
400
near the equator temperatures are high all year and rainfall is plentiful
What is a tropical zone?
500
the ability of the atmosphere to let in sunlight but not to let heat escape
What is the greenhouse effect?
500
this comes from cows
What is methane?
500
when a cold and warm from meet
What is occluded fronts?
500
the tinman, lion, and scarecrow
Who are Dorothy's friends?
500
n the middle latitudes, summers are warm and winters are cool or cold
What is the temperatate zones?
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