What to do with energy?
Why are you fronting?
Winds
The pressures on! Highs & Lows
Joey's random 5
100
This is the transfer of thermal energy by electromagnetic waves. All matter, including the Sun, fire, and even ice, transfers thermal energy by this act.
Radiation
100
This is a boundary between two air masses?
Front
100
This is the movement of air from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure. Hint: we did an experiment with blowing up balloons with this one.
Wind
100
These are large bodies of air that have uniform temperature, humidity, and pressure.
Air Masses
100
The atmospheric conditions, along with short-term changes, of a certain place at a certain time.
Hint: what is it doing outside right now?
Weather
200
The measure of the reflectivity of a surface is called this... hint, light-colored, reflective surfaces like ice and thick cloud cover have a high one.
Albedo
200
Adult shark teeth!!!!
Cold Front
200
These are steady winds that flow from west to east between latitudes 30 degrees North and 60 degrees South.
Prevailing Westerlies
200
The pressure system often involves air rising!
Low-Pressure System
200
This current is wind-driven and carries ocean water horizontally across the ocean's surface.
Surface Current
300
Different materials are better at absorbing thermal energy. In our classroom experiments, which material absorbed thermal energy to quickest? Sand or water.
Sand
300
Baby shark teeth!
Warm front
300
These are cold winds that blow from east to west near the North Pole and the South Pole.
Polar Easterlies
300
This pressure system often brings clear skies and fair weather.
High-pressure systems
300
This current is the vertical movement of water caused by differences in density!
Density Current
400
This is the transfer of thermal energy between materials by the collisions of particles.
Conduction
400
This front forms when less dense, warmer air moves toward colder, denser air.
Warm Front
400
Near the top of the troposhere are narrow bands of high winds called these. they flow around Earth from west to east, often making large loops to the north or the south. Two of these directly affect the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
Jet Streams
400
These air masses form over oceans and large bodies of water. The atmosphere often becomes saturated with moisture content.
Maritime Air Masses
400
The breeze can be best described as:
During the DAY, cool ocean air moves toward lower pressure over land.
Sea Breeze
500
The transfer of thermal energy by the movement of particles within matter is called this?
Hint, Earth has several large atmospheric cells that redistribute thermal energy around the world!
Convection
500
This front forms when a colder air mass moves toward a warmer air mass.
Cold Front
500
These are steady winds that flow from east to west between 30 degrees North latitude and 30 degrees South latitude.
Trade Winds
500
The molecules of air in a high-pressure system tend to be more or less dense?
More Dense
500
Earth's rotation causes moving air and water to appear to curve to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere, a phenomenon known as this?
Coriolis Effect