Describing Weather
Weather Patterns
Weather Forecasts
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Review
100
The atmospheric conditions, along with short-term changes, of a certain place at a certain time.
What is Weather?
100
This type of Air Mass would have the greatest effect in Minnesota.
What is Continental Polar?
100
This describes wind, temperature, and humidity conditions above Earth's surface in the higher atmosphere.
What is an Upper-Air Report?
100
*Cooler air has __________ humidity than warmer air.
Lower
100
This layer in the atmosphere prevents most harmful UV radiation from reaching Earth
What is the Ozone Layer?
200
Clouds that are found at 2,000-6,000 meters and look like fluffy white cotton balls.
What is a Cumulus Cloud?
200
This is a front in which warmer air moves toward colder, denser air
What is a Warm Front? *BONUS QUESTION* What kind of weather is found at this front?
200
Data used to construct isobars would be measured with this instrument.
What is a Barometer?
200
When updrafts within a thunderstorm begin to rotate, this is formed.
What is a Tornado?
200
This is a scientific observation that Earth's average surface temperature is increasing.
What is Global Warming?
300
This originates in snow clouds and falls to Earth as small ice particles
What is Sleet?
300
This kind of front is when the boundaries between two air masses stall.
What is a Stationary Front?
300
This describes a set of weather measurements made on Earth's surface.
What is a Surface Report?
300
The amount of water vaopr in the air compared to the amount the air can hold is this.
What is Relative Humidity?
300
Geothermal energy is a type of this resource.
What is an Inexhaustible Resource?
400
These are the 3 key phases of the Water Cycle.
What is Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation?
400
Weather is most severe during this stage of a Thunderstorm.
What is the Mature Stage?
400
This uses radio waves to detect precipitation as well as the movement of small particles, which can be used to approximate wind speed.
What is Doppler Radar?
400
Air moves into and upward through this type of system.
What is a Low-Pressure System?
400
A mineral is a type of this kind of resource.
What is a Nonrenewable Resource?
500
*Explain why a desert would not normally experience fog...
Deserts are very Dry. Thus, they lack enough water vapor to produce fog eveen when the temperature falls below the dew point.
500
*Explain the process of the formation of a Hurricane, using key terms from the chapter.
Warm air rises in a *low pressure system found over the ocean. This warm air condenses and forms clouds, eventually causing a *tropical depression. As this air continues to rise, winds force the storm to begin rotating counterclockwise. When winds reach *70 mph (119 km/h), a hurricane is formed.
500
This is the purpose of a Computer Model.
What is a detailed computer program that solves a set of complex mathematical formulas to predict future weather conditions?
500
! DAILY DOUBLE !
It is 8 am on a summer day, and a Warm Front is supposed to move into your area by 7 pm. You are planning a trip to the beach for a few hours, which is located an hour away. Will the weather spoil your plans? Why or why not?
500
This is the organization responisible for monitoring the health of the environment and looks for ways to reduce human impacts.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
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