How does air move?
Is the air pushing down on an area.
What is atmospheric pressure
A large, hot desert can cause the air above it to be warm and fairly dry.
What is continental tropical air?
Name the four types of severe weather.
What are thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes and monsoons?
Shows air pressure.
What is a barometer?
The convection currents in the atmosphere
What is wind?
When gas particles are closer together.
What are cool air particles?
An air mass forming over the ocean near the poles in cold, but relatively moist.
What is maritime polar air?
The center on a hurricane.
What is the eye?
Measure wind speed
What is a anemometer?
A boundary between two air masses
What is a front?
Air pressure is highest near Earths surface.
True or false
What is true?
An air mass from this area is cold and fairly dry.
What is continental polar air?
Hurricanes are energized by warm, ocean water.
True of false.
What is true?
Transmits weather reports.
What is a telegraph?
The rising and sinking of matter in a circular pattern caused by temperature differences
What is convection currents?
Air pressure pushes equally in all directions
True or false
What is true?
Humid air here has lots moisture, so water can easily evaporate here.
What is maritime tropical air?
Spinning in an counter-clockwise direction.
What is a cyclone?
Measure distance and motion.
What is a Radar
The weight of air pushing down on an area
What is atmospheric pressure?
Measures atmospheric pressure to show altitude?
What is an altimeter
Forms when a fast moving cold front overtakes a slower warm front, lifting the warm air mass off the ground.
What is an occluded front?
Thunderstorms grow out of tropical depression?
What step of hurricane formation is that?
What is the 3rd step
Show images of clouds.
What are satellites?
A tool that measures air pressure
What is a barometer?