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Breezes & Landforms
Air Masses, Fronts, & Storms Oh My!
Water Cycle
Precipitation
Weather Instruments
100
It will heat up and cools down fast.
What is land?
100
Large body of air.
What is an air mass?
100
Process in which water moves from the surface of Earth to the air and then back again.
What is the water cycle?
100
Water that falls back to the earth.
What is precipitation?
100
Instrument that measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
200
Breezes that form over the sea that push the hot air over land upward.
What are sea breezes?
200
A cold, wet air mass.
What is the cause for snow?
200
Process by which a liquid changes into a gas.
What is evaporation?
200
Precipitation that falls if the temperature is HIGHER than 0 degrees Celsius.
What is rain?
200
Measures the temperature in an area.
What is a thermometer?
300
When land is surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a pennisula?
300
Where most storms form.
What is at fronts?
300
Process by which gas changes into a liquid.
What is condensation?
300
Excess water from rain that doesn't soak into the ground.
What is runoff?
300
Instrument that measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
400
This state can get a lot of storms because of the sea breezes moving over land from water that is on both sides of the state.
What is Florida?
400
When two air masses come together and form a cold front.
What causes thunderstorms?
400
This is what is needed to have evaporation.
What is heat?
400
Rain, sleet, snow, or hail.
What is precipitation?
400
Measures the amount of rainfall.
What is a rain gauge?
500
When one side of a mountain gets no or very little precipitation.
What is a rain shadow?
500
The cause of flooding during a hurricane.
What are rain and storm surges.
500
This is water that is soaked into the ground until is gets to solid rock.
What is groundwater.
500
A large tropical storm with wind speeds of 119 km per hour or more.
What is a hurricane?
500
Measures wind direction.
What is a wind vane?