Air Masses & Fronts
This front occurs when a warm air mass slides over a cold air mass.
What is a warm front?
A tool that measures air temperature in degrees Celsius or degrees Fahrenheit.
What is a thermometer?
A circle that is only half colored in means that the sky looks like this.
What is partially cloudy?
A cloud that is stretched out very thin across the sky and brings in fair weather.
What is a stratus cloud?
A huge body of air that forms and causes weather conditions when it moves.
What is an air mass?
This front occurs when a cold air mass slides under a warm air mass.
What is a cold front?
This tool measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
What is very windy or windy?
A cloud that is fluffy and white and brings fair weather.
What is a cumulous cloud?
This is the name of the middle of a hurricane.
What is the eye of the storm or the eye?
This type of front occurs when a warm air mass is pushed upwards between two cold air masses.
What is an occluded front?
This tool is also called a wind sock and measures wind direction.
What is a wind vane?
The temperature is always located here on the station model.
What is the top left?
A cloud that is stacked in layers across the sky and can bring in precipitation.
What is cirrus clouds?
An anemometer is used to measure wind speed in what unit of measurement?
What is miles per hour or mph?
This type of front occurs when a warm air mass and a cold air mass collide but they do not move.
This tool is a further progression of technology like the satellite.
What is radar?
If isobars are placed far apart on a Weather Map this means
What is little or no wind?
A cloud that is puffy and dark that brings in storms and precipitation.
What is cumulonimbus clouds?
Name three things that radar detects from our study guide. (no peeking!)
What is:
cloud cover movement
rainfall potential for severe weather
storm location
intensity
This front is the only one that can bring in tornadoes and thunderstorms.
What is a cold front?
Show the part of the station model that tells wind speed and the part that shows wind direction. See the drawing on the board.
Teacher Answer.
If there is a cold front moving North toward New York and it has already passed South Carolina, the weather in South Carolina will do this.
(stay the same or get worse)
What is stay the same?
This is the meaning of the prefix Alto and this is the meaning of the suffix/prefix nimbus.
What is height and rain?
What is:
Rain Gauge . Sling Psychrometer
Barometer Wind Vane
Anemometer
Thermometer