What is this?
Point at which earth is farthest from the sun
What is the Aphelion?
This word means a pile and describes clouds that look like piles of cotton
What is cumulus?
This is the date on which Module 7 test is due so I know you don't wait until after Christmas to take it
What is Saturday, December 13?
An area that receives large amounts of insolation is likely to feel this way
What is warm?
The 3 factors that influence weather
Thermal Energy
Uneven distribution of thermal energy
Water vapor in the atmosphere
Point at which earth is closest to the sun
What is the Perihelion?
What is a cirrus clouds?
From this equinox to this solstice, the amount of daylight increases.
What is the spring equinox and the summer solstice?
This is the direction winds tend to blow on the surface of the earth
What is from the poles to the equator?
These are the names of Santa's Reindeer
Who are Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen and Rudolph?
Boundary between two air masses
What is a weather front?
When you see clouds that look like layers, you are seeing this type of cloud
What is stratus?
This is the day of the year with the most hours of daylight for the northern hemisphere.
What is the summer solstice?
What is the large temperature difference between the equator and the poles?
These are the 4 types of fronts
What are cold fronts, warm fronts, stationary fronts and occluded fronts?
The way in which the rotation of the earth bends the path of winds, sea currents and objects that fly through different latitudes
What is the Coriolis effect?
This word means gray or dark and is often used to describe storm clouds
What is nimbus?
This is the term used to describe the two times of year that have 12 hours of day and 12 hours of night.
What is equinox?
Between hot and cold air, this is the one that rises.
What is hot air?
In a cold front, cold air mores this direction relative to warm air.
What is under warm air?
A large body of air with relatively uniform pressure, temperature and humidity.
What is an air mass?
This is the type of weather you'd expect to see if cirrus clouds form, followed by stratus, then nimbostratus.
What is long, light rain?
Of the 3 main factors that influence weather, this is the one mostly responsible for winds
What is uneven distribution of thermal energy?
This is the type of front that occurs when air masses traveling in different directions collide.
What is a stationary front?
These are the 3 types of air masses
What are Arctic, Polar and tropical?