This front is a fast-moving cold air mass that overtakes a warm air mass...
What is a cold front?
100
Scientists that study the causes of weather and try to predict it...
What is meteorologists?
100
This refers to the average year-after-year conditions of temperature, precipitation, winds, and clouds in an area...
What is climate?
100
This side of the mountain is in a rain shadow...
What is leeward side?
200
These air masses have high air pressure...
What is polar air masses?
200
This front is a warm air mass that overtakes a slow-moving cold air mass...
What is a warm front?
200
These three things are used to study weather...
What is weather balloons, satellites, and weather stations?
200
This is an area changes every day...
What is weather?
200
These move air masses...
What is prevailing winds?
300
These air masses form in the tropics and have low air pressure...
What is tropical air masses?
300
This front is where cold and warm air masses meet but neither can move the other...
What is a stationary front?
300
These carry instruments high into the troposphere and lower stratosphere...
What is weather balloons?
300
This is a small area with climate conditions that differ from those around it...
What is a microclimate?
300
This is the side of the mountain that the wind hits...
What is windward side?
400
These air masses form over land...
What is continental air masses?
400
This front is when a warm air mass is caught between two cooler air masses...
What is an occluded front?
400
These orbit Earth in the exosphere (uppermost layer of the atmosphere) and collect data on temperature, humidity, solar radiation, wind speed and wind direction, and provide images of clouds and storm systems...
What is weather satellites?
400
This is the distance from the equator, measure in degrees...
What is latitude?
400
These are sea and land breezes over a large region that change direction with the seasons...
What is monsoons?
500
These are the four major types of air masses that influence the weather in North America...
What is maritime, tropical, continental tropical, maritime polar, and continental polar?
500
These are high-pressure centers of dry air and have spiral winds...
What is anticyclones?
500
This is where most weather information comes from...
What is The National Weather Service?
500
These are the main factors that affect temperature...
What is latitude, altitude, distance from large bodies of water, and ocean currents?
500
These are the main factors that affect precipitation...
What is prevailing winds, the presence of mountains, and seasonal winds?