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What process of the water cycle forms clouds?
What is condensation.
What causes local winds?
What is local geographic features (mountains, shoreline, etc.)
What is it called where two air masses meet?
What is a front?
What tool measures air pressure?
What is a barometer.
The Earth's rotation causing wind to curve is called the?
What is Coriolis Effect
What powers the water cycle?
What is the sun?
What direction does a land breeze blow? During the day or night?
What is from land to sea. It occurs at night.
A curved line with red half circles on it is the symbol for a ?
What is warm front
What is the force that pushes on air molecules?
What is air pressure?
The global wind that affects the weather in the U.S.
What are the prevailing westerlies.
rain, sleet, snow, and hail are examples of?
What is precipitation.
1. What direction does a sea breeze blow. 2. Does a sea breeze occur during the day or night?
1. What is from the sea to land. 2. During the day.
The weather forecast indicates that the weather will be turning cold very quickly with the chance of a tornado. What type of front would cause this?
What is a cold front.
Differences in air pressure would cause what?
What is wind.
What global winds did sailors use for direction to sell goods?
What are the trade winds?
1. What do the words maritime, continental, polar, and tropical mean?
2. Describe the continental tropical (cT) airmass.
1. What is wet (humid), dry, cold, and warm?
2. What is dry and warm (the desert)
Mountain and Valley breeze are caused by?
what is differences in temperature and elevation.
This type of front brings many days of cloudy, wet weather.
What is a stationary front.
the condition of the atmosphere at a particular place and time
What is weather?
What direction does the Polar Easterlies blow?
What is East to West?
This cloud is large, dark and high in the sky. It is associated with bad weather such as thunderstorms.
What is cumulonimbus.
What causes differences in air pressure around the world?
Warm air rises at the equator (low pressure). Cold air sinks at the poles (high pressure).
warm air mass meets and rises above cold air masses during this kind of front
What is warm front.
a large body of air with similar temperature, humidity and air pressure that forms over land or water.
What is an air mass?
Narrow bands of winds at the top of the troposphere and the bottom of the stratosphere that can reach high wind speeds of 400km/hr are
What is a jet stream