The Big Bubbles of Air
A large body of air that possesses horizontally uniform temperature and humidity levels.
What is an Air Mass?
This term describes the boundary line where two air masses of different densities and temperatures collide.
What is a Front?
If you see a "H" on a weather map, you can generally expect this type of weather.
What is Clear (Fair)/Sunny Weather?
This is the term for the horizontal movement of air traveling from high-pressure zones to low-pressure zones.
What is the Wind?
Unlike conduction or convection, this is the process that allows solar energy to travel through the vacuum of space to reach Earth.
What is radiation?
if you want to know if the air pressure is rising or falling, you’ll need to check this scientific instrument.
What is a barometer?
This specific type of air mass, abbreviated as mT, is characterized by its warmth and high humidity.
What is a Maritime tropical (mT) air mass?
This type of front is created when a dense, cold air mass wedges itself underneath a lighter, warm air mass.
What is a cold front?
These systems are notorious for bringing cloudy skies, unstable air, and various forms of precipitation.
What is low pressure systems?
This solar phenomenon is the fundamental, primary cause of all wind on Earth.
What is Uneven heating of the Earth's surface by the Sun?
To get an accurate reading of a beach's solid surface temperature, you should place your thermometer in this specific spot.
What is just under the surface of the sand?
Because the Earth is spinning, winds curve instead of blowing in a straight line—a phenomenon known as this "effect."
What is the Coriolis Effect?
This cold, dry air mass typically originates over the land of northern Canada.
What is a Continental polar (cP) air mass) ?
This severe weather event is the most likely outcome when warm, oceanic air hits cool, dry air over land.
What is a Thunderstorm?
On a weather map, this system is marked with a big blue "H" because its sinking air warms up and stops clouds from forming, leading to clear, sunny skies.
What is a High-Pressure System?
During the day, this local wind occurs when cool air from the ocean moves in to replace rising warm air over the land.
What is a sea breeze?
If a student has water and a metal bowl to show conduction and convection, they would add this specific light-emitting tool to demonstrate radiation.
What is a heat lamp?
As warm air moves higher into the atmosphere, these three things happen to it: it expands, it cools, and this occurs.
What is condensation (or forming clouds/precipitation)?
Air masses are primarily classified based on these two physical characteristics.
What is moisture and temperature?
On a weather map, a red line with semicircles represents this front, which usually brings steady, gentle rain.
What is a Warm Front?
Air always flows from areas of __________ pressure to areas of _______ pressure to create wind.
What is High and Low?
Because this substance warms and cools much more slowly than land, it provides an insulating effect that keeps coastal temperature ranges narrow.
What is water? (Or: What is the ocean?)
Because the ocean has a high amount of "this," it can soak up massive amounts of solar energy without a major change in temperature.
What is specific heat (or heat capacity)?
Tornado Alley is famous for the collision of dry western air and these moist, warm, low-pressure air masses from the Gulf of Mexico.
What are maritime tropical (mT) air masses?
This process occurs to an air mass when it moves away from its source region and over a different surface
What is it is heated or cooled?
This complex front forms when a warm air mass is trapped and lifted between two encroaching colder air masses.
What is an Occluded Front?
Because it is warmer and less dense than its surroundings, this happens to the air within a low-pressure system.
What is rising? (or "What is why it rises?")
This is the name of the circular process where heat differences create movement within a fluid, such as air or water.
What is convection (or convection current)?
This type of heat transfer is happening when your hand gets hot from touching a warm metal spoon.
What is conduction?
To build a cloud, you must have a way to cool the air down and plenty of this "gas" present in the atmosphere.
What is water vapor?