CURRENTS
The most likely phenomenon responsible for the currents circular pattern is?
What is the Coriolis Effect
The energy source that drives all weather pattern is?
What is the sun
In winter when cold air passes over large bodies of warm water, moisture is lifted up. As the air rises quickly over land what occurs?
What is precipitation generally occurs
Monica had water in a pan. She placed one pan in the sun for 12 hours and one in a shady spot. She returned and measured the water in both pans. What most likely happened to the water in the pans?
What is more water evaporated from the pan left in the sun
meteorologist
Who is a scientist who studies and predicts the weather
What is the major cause of the ocean waves?
What is the wind
What has a curved line on a map and shows air pressure?
What is a ISOBAR
The jet stream during spring moved southward across Texas and northern Florida. How would the weather in North Carolina compare to that of a typical year?
What is cooler and dryer
Toxic runoff can pollute a stream and what else?
What is pollute groundwater
stationary front
What occurs when two air masses meet but neither can move the other?
The main source for deep ocean currents that move large volumes of water is?
What is radiation from the sun
What are 5 characteristics that Meteorologists look at to determine weather?
What is temperature, wind, air pressure, humidity and precipitation.
Over the Gulf of Mexico a stationary air mass would typically be?
What is warm and humid
What stage of water cycle is shown from the ocean to the clouds
What is the sun heating ocean water causing some to evaporate.
air mass
What is a huge body of air that has similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure at any given height?
What causes the air masses above them to become warmer?
What is Warm ocean currents
What has a curved line on a map but shows temperature?
What is a ISOTHERM
A warm air mass over the ocean wwould most likely cause what?
what is rainfall
What occurs when water vapor changes into warm water?
What is Condensation
Precipitation
What is any form of water that falls from the clouds and reaches the Earths surface.
What do these currents affect and change?
What is the precipitation, temperature and also affect wind speed and direction
Who uses data and technology to predict the future of the weather?
Who is a meterologist
What kind of front occurs when 2 air masses meet but neither can move another?
What is a stationary front
What is it called when something is always moving between the surface of the Earth and the atmosphere.
What is called the water cycle.
Water Cycle
What is always moving between the surface of the Earth and the atmosphere.