8th Grade Weather

Misc.

100

What is an air mass

What is a large body of air that extends for miles and miles

200

Does the air that originates over the poles cold or hot

What is cold

300

Does the air mass over the equator hot or cold

What is hot

400

The unevening heating of Earth by the Sun causes this.

What is convection currents

500

What happens when two DIFFERENT air masses meet?

Cold air masses sink and warm air masses rise, creating bad weather.

Weather Fronts

100

what front does cold air move into warm air?

What is a cold front

200

What front move hot air in and cold air out

What is a warm front

300

What type of front causes cold air and warm air to not move

What is a stationary front

400

what type of front has cold, warm, and cool air meet?

What is an occluded front

500

What is a weather front?

What is a boundary between two air masses

High and Low Pressure

100

What type of weather does high pressure cause?

What is sunny fair weather

200

what type of weather does low pressure create

What is rainy bad weather

300

High pressure turns which way?

What is Clockwise

400

Which way does low pressure turn?

What is counter clockwise

500

What temperature of air leads to H and L pressure?

Cold air = high pressure

Warm air = low pressure