Water cycle
What are clouds made of?
Water Vapor
what type of weather is made with low pressure?
Precipitation and cold temperature
what are all the weather fronts?
cold,warm, station,and occluded fronts.
What does it mean when the jet stream is diverged.
The jet stream is closed.
What are all the air mass names?
Continental Polar, Continental Tropical, Maritime Tropical, and Maritime Polar.
What is the engine of the water cycle?
The sun.
what type of weather does high pressure bring?
sunny and good weather
What color is the occluded front.
Purple.
What does it mean when the jet stream is converged.
It is open
What causes air masses to rise?
Winds and air currents cause air masses to move. Moving air masses cause changes in the weather. A front forms at the boundary between two air masses
What is the measure of water vapor in the air
Humidity
What makes rain drops tear shape?
The reason is due to their speed falling through the atmosphere.
What is the weather for a stationary front.
Cloudy maybe rain.
How Would You Define a Jet Stream?
Jet streams are relatively narrow bands of strong wind in the upper levels of the atmosphere
What do air masses depend on?
Air masses are classified based on their temperature and humidity characteristics.
What percent of Earth is water?
About 71%.
What causes weather
Due to air pressure, temperature, and moisture differences between one place to another.
What causes weather front occur?
Moisture and differences in air pressure.
How fast is the jet stream?
Jet streams vary in height of four to eight miles and can reach speeds of more than 275 mph.
What are air masses moved by? (triple points)
Air masses are large bodies of air that have similar temperature and humidity. These air masses are moved around the atmosphere by prevailing winds that blow in one direction. At the boundaries between air masses, weather fronts form. Weather fronts cause changes in the weather such as rain, storms and wind.
What is the order of the water cycle? (triple the points.)
Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation, Interception, Infiltration, Percolation, and Transportation.
How can there be clouds in winter when it is too cold for water to stay a water vapor. (Double the points)
Clouds have no problem existing in the cold of winter, because they can just exist as ice crystals.
What is a weather front?
A weather front is a transition zone two different air masses at the Earth's surface.
What is the jet stream caused by?
The earth's rotation is responsible for the jet stream as well
In which region can the air hold the most moisture? (double points)
Higher humidity is found around the equatorial regions because air temperatures are higher and warm air can hold more moisture than cooler air. Humidity is lower near the polar regions because air temperature is lower.