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How Does Air Move?
What Are Air Masses?
What Causes Severe Weather?
How Are Weather Forecasts Made?
What is Climate?
100
About how many liters of air do you have in your lungs?
What are 3 liters
100
What are the 4 basic bodies of air?
What is continental tropical, continental polar, maritime tropical, and maritime polar?
100
In this storm's final stage, all the currents are moving downward, and the clouds get smaller as precipitation falls.
What is a thunderstorm?
100
This weather-measuring tool shows air pressure/
What is a barometer?
100
_________ changes very often.
What is weather?
200
What are the 5 layers of the Earth's atmosphere?
What is the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere and exosphere
200
A large body of air with similar properties all through it is called
What is an air mass?
200
What is the difference between a watch and a warning?
Watch = a storm might happen Warning = prepare for the storm, it is going to happen
200
The weather symbol "L" on a map represents what?
What is low air pressure?
200
On a mountain range, ________ is cooler because temperature decreases with height in the troposphere.
What is higher land?
300
Where do most weather conditions happen?
What is the troposphere?
300
A boundary between two air masses
What is a front?
300
Name two instruments used to collect data about the weather, AND tell what they measure. (You may not mention the barometer)
What is a thermometer, anemometer, rain gauge, hygrometer and rain gauge?
300
How do oceans affect climate?
By slowing the rise and fall of the air temperature
400
Convection currents form when air temperatures are
What is different
400
What causes precipitation at front?
What is rising warm air?
400
Where do hurricanes get their energy from?
What is warm ocean water?
400
Name three parts of a weather system.
What is temperature, moisture, air pressure, clouds, precipitation, wind speed, and wind direction?
400
The temperature of the air near _________ does not change as quickly as air inland.
What is an ocean?
500
How may convection currents form in the air above Earth?
What is 6?
500
What condition causes the clouds to move more slowly and cause longer periods of rain?
What is a warm front?
500
Rolling columns of wind best describe what weather condition?
What is a tornado?
500
Fronts are always in places of __________.
What is low pressure?
500
The Gulf Stream and the North Atlantic Drift make northern Europe's climate ________ than it would be otherwise.
What is warmer?