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This process of the water cycle forms clouds?
What is condensation?
A large body of air with similar temperature and moisture.
What is an airmass?
Where two air masses meet is called this.
What is a front?
This scientific tool measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
This dome of water sweeps across the coast and may occur when a hurricane comes ashore. (choose from hurricane, jet stream, storm surge, polar easterly)
What is a storm surge?
The layer of gases that surrounds the earth.
What is the atmosphere?
As elevation increases in the troposphere, this happens to temperature and air pressure
What is temperature decreases and air pressure decreases?
DAILY TRIPLE!
This type of current is the movement of a fluid*, caused by differences in temperature, that transfers heat from one part of the fluid to another due to changes in temperature that occurs in the troposphere.
(the correct response is a 2 word term)
* a fluid flows and can be liquid or gas
What are convection currents?
This is a rotating funnel-shaped cloud that typically lasts 5-10 minutes.
What is a tornado?
This stream is bands of high-altitude speed winds above North America that run from west to east.
What are jet streams?
The two most abundant gases in the atmosphere
What are nitrogen and oxygen?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
1. The term maritime means water or land? The term continental means water or land? The term polar means warm or cold? The term tropical means warm or cold?
2. Describe the continental tropical (cT) airmass.
1. What is water, land, cold, warm?
2. Dry and warm (desert)
The gas found in the stratosphere that absorbs harmful ultraviolet radiation.
What is ozone?
This scientific tool is used to show wind direction.
What is a weather vane?
Where does most air pollution come from
What is the burning fossil fuels?
This powers the water cycle.
What is the sun?
Air masses are named after the type of location they form. Maritime tropical air mass form over this type of location.
What is over water and near the equator?
A curved line with red half circles on it is the symbol for this type of front.
What is a warm front?
The condition of the atmosphere at a particular place and time.
What is the weather?
Where do most tornadoes occur?
What is the Midwest of the United States (Tornado Alley) ?
Rain, sleet, snow, and hail are examples this.
What is precipitation?
Where does a continental tropical airmass form?
What is over land and near the equator?
These are the four main layers in our atmosphere in order from Earth to space.
What is troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere?
This scientific tool is used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
When is hurricane season?
What is the Fall and late Summer?