Weather
Wind
Air Masses and Fronts
Atmosphere
Weather and Pressure Maps
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This pressure system creates cloudy and rainy weather.
What is low pressure.
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Which global wind belt is the United States located?
What is the Prevailing Westerlies.
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What is a front?
Boundary between two air masses.
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The layer of the atmosphere where weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
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What are isobars?
Lines that connect equal pressures.
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The state of the troposphere over a short period of time (day to day), in a specific region, as regards heat, dryness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc.
What is weather.
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In which compass directions do the prevailing westerlies move from - and to.
They move from the South West and TO the North East
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What type of front is being shown?
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The layer of the atmosphere that contains the ozone?
What is the stratosphere?
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What are isotherms?
Isolines that connect equal temperatures.
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Which weather instrument measures barometric pressure?
What is a barometer.
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Name two local wind patterns
What is land and sea breeze.
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Which compass direction is the warm front moving?
North
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The layer of the atmosphere where satellites orbit?
Thermosphere (Exosphere)
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What kind of wind is present when isobars are close together?
What is Very High Winds?
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Convert 30.12 inches to Millibars
1020.0
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In which direction do the winds blow around a low-pressure system in the Northern Hemisphere?
Counterclockwise and inward.
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Describe a Maritime Tropical air mass in terms of temperature, humidity, density, and whether it will sink or rise.
Warm, wet, low density, rising.
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The layer of the atmosphere where meteors burn up?
The mesosphere (Hint: Mesosphere sounds like meteor)
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What kind of weather and temperature is associated with a high pressure system?
What is pleasant, and cooler weather.
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Convert barometric pressure on the station model to millibars.
998.7 mb
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What causes the planetary winds and ocean currents to be deflected to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere?
What is the Coriolis effect.
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What is the source region of a continental polar air mass in North America?
What is Central Canada?
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Two sublayers of the Thermosphere?
Ionosphere- Where northern lights occur
Exosphere- Where satellites are specifically (most outer sublayer)
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Do weather systems move from low pressure to high pressure, or high pressure to low pressure areas?
From high to low pressure areas.