Weather - 1
What is a large body of air iwth a specific temperature and moisture?
air mass
These air masses are warm and dry and form over southwestern United States.
Continental tropical airmasses
Meteorologists use data to _______________ or predict the next day's weather.
forecast
A relationship in which two species help each other is called _________________.
Mutualism
These air masses are cold and dry and form over Canada and the United States.
Continental polar air masses
These air masses form over the Caribbean Sea, the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and the middle of the Pacific Ocean. These air masses are warm and moist.
Maritme tropical air masses
This is the control center of a cell.
Nucleus
What is the name of the protein that the body makes to defend itself?
antibody
These air masses form over the northern Atlantic Ocean and the northern Pacific Ocean. They are cold and moist.
Maritime polar air masses
What is the leading edge of a moving air mass?
front
DNA
The process of one cell becoming two cells is called _______________.
Mitosis
These are found online and in newspapers every day. They show where cold, warm and stationary fronts are.
weather map
When air masses (stop or start) moving for a while, the zone between them is called a stationary front.
stop
Which blood vessels carry blood away from the heart (artery or vein)?
artery
Describe three types of precipitation.
rain, snow, and sleet
Who are the scientists that study the weather?
meteorologists
Veins carry blood (away or to) the heart.
To the heart