This type of zone that is near the equator, generally warm/hot year round
What is the tropical zone?
What is altitude?
What are Trade winds (easterlies)
What is Conduction?
What is a cold front?
tool that measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
This type of atmospheric conditions are created when lighter air rises creating lousy weather (warm, wet, cloudy, higher precipitation)
What is a low pressure system?
Winds that blow from west to each in the temperate climate zones.
What are prevailing winds?
examples of this type of transfer can be: boiling water, heating a room, and a hot air ballon
what is convection?
What is precipitation?
This zone receives little direct sunlight and is generally cold year round
What is the polar zone?
Happens during the day because the air above the beach is warm and rises, and the cooler air from over the ocean rushed in.
What is a sea breeze?
The unusual warming of water in the Pacific Ocean. Can bring heave rains and flooding.
What is El Nino?
These types of objects do NOT allow heat to pass though easily. Examples are wool, cotton, and plastic
What are insulators?
These types of clouds are low, light gray, and blanket-like. Produces an overcast.
What are stratus clouds?
A meteorologist wants to measure the humidity outside the station. What tool would they need to use?
What is a hygrometer?
This type of atmospheric condition is present when there is cool, clear, dry air.
What is a high pressure system?
A fast-moving tube of air that flows from WEST to EAST high above the U.S.
What is a jet stream?
This type of transfer is when heat travels through air by electromagnetic waves
What is radiation?
A warm air mass and a cold air mass meet, but neither moves past each other
What is a stationary front?
This type of weather tool uses the units of Fahrenheit or Celsius.
What is a thermometer?
Happens during the night because the air above the ocean is warm and rises, and the cooler air from the land rushes in
What is a land breeze?
This type of weather condition brings extreme storms due to the cooling of the water in the Pacific Ocean
What is La Nina
Examples: metals (copper, iron, and steel)
what are conductors?
What is fog?