Vocabulary
Temperature, Pressure, and Weather Tools
Weather Forecasting
Severe Weather
Climate and Weather
100
An air mass represented by a blue line with triangles along it.
What is a cold front?
100
The atmosphere balancing high and low pressure systems results in _____________; Horizontal movement of air
What is wind?
100
What kinds of weather do we get when a cold front moves into a warm air mass?
What is rain?
100
The center of a hurricane.
What is the eye?
100
What kind of winds do we have at the poles?
What are polar easterlies?
200
Atmospheric conditions over a long period of time
What is the climate?
200
This is how we name winds.
What is the direction in which they're coming from?
200
Cloud type that looks layered or like a ceiling.
What are stratus clouds?
200
What type of cloud is associated with tornadoes? Also, name one other weather phenomenon you may see alongside a tornado.
What is cumulonimbus? (also associated: rain, heavy winds, hail, lightning)
200
What kind of winds do we have around the equator?
What are the tradewinds?
300
Where a mass of air remains unmoving in a region.
What is a stationary front?
300
Tool used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
300
What kind of cloud would you associate with extreme weather?
What is a cumulonimbus?
300
This type of extreme weather (hurricane or tornado) is easier to prepare for. EXPLAIN YOUR ANSWER!
What is a hurricane? (Easier to predict; we know days in advance; tornadoes can pop up at a moment's notice)
300
What kind of climate do we live in here in Woodbridge? (3 choices)
What is a temperate climate?
400
A measure of moisture in the air, given as a percent.
What is relative humidity?
400
Tool used to measure pressure.
What is a barometer?
400
The temperature which an air mass would have to cooled to in order to become saturated.
What is dew point?
400
Scale to classify strength of tornadoes.
What is the Fujita Scale?
400
How do large bodies of water affect climate?
What are warmer winters and cooler summers? (more mild throughout year)
500
Air rises over the water causing warm wind to blow to the sea.
What is a land breeze?
500
The tool we use to calculate dew point and relative humidity.
What is a sling psychrometer?
500
If a weather station model says 197 for current pressure, what is the TRUE pressure?
What is 1019.7 mb?
500
The name of the scale used to classify hurricanes.
What is Saffir-Simpson Scale? (or "Category")
500
When wet air is pushed over a mountain range, the climate on the OTHER side of the mountains will be ____________.
What is a desert?