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Air Masses
Oceans
Land
Weather
BAM!
100
The area that receives most of the sun's energy
What is the equator?
100
These are formed over warm water.
What are clouds?
100
An area of land where air would heat up very fast.
What is Desert?
100
Depicted by blue arrows on a weather map
What are cold fronts?
100
30 degrees north to 30 degrees south of the equator.
What are the Tropics?
200
The instrument used to measure the amount of moisture in air masses.
What is a psychrometer?
200
400 meters of water moving due to wind.
What are surface currents?
200
The weather conditions created on land by El Nino.
What are higher than normal rain patterns?
200
Depicted by a blue H on a weather map and the type of weather it creates.
What is a High pressure zone / cold and windy?
200
The type of pressure and weather warm water/land creates.
What are Low pressure and storms?
300
The property of hot air that causes it to rise.
What is low density?
300
unusual ocean currents that can change wind directions.
What is El Nino or La Nina?
300
The unusual weather conditions created on land by La Nina.
What are Droughts?
300
The type of weather caused by a warm front.
What is warm and stormy?
300
The circulating currents that swirl in different oceans caused by convention currents and the Coriolis effect.
What are Gyres?
400
This causes convection currents in the atmosphere.
What is uneven heating of the earth by the sun?
400
This type of ocean will increase the energy in a Huricane.
What are warm oceans?
400
The direction of the wind where we live. (30 degrees North to 60 degrees North)
What is from the west to the east?
400
This "stream" is made of moving ocean water and can influence weather patterns because it moves warm water from the equator north.
What is the gulf stream?
400
The direction the earth spins.
What is counter clockwise?
500
This causes air to be deflected as it moves across the earth.
What is the Coriolis effect?
500
Creates a Humid / Cold air mass.
What is Maritime Polar?
500
The area that creates a hot / dry air mass.
What is continental tropical?
500
The "stream" that moves global winds around the globe.
What is the jet stream?
500
The movement of cold water from the depths of the ocean towards the surface caused by wind patterns and convention currents.
What is upwelling?