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Air Temperature & Pressure
Clouds & Humidity
Winds
Air Masses & Fronts
Severe Weather
100
The Earth's surface absorbs energy from the sun and warms the air above it by this process of heat transfer
What is conduction?
100
When the the amount of water vapor in the air is high, what happens to the humidity?
What is the humidity is high?
100
Clouds that bring heavy rain are classified as this.
What is nimbus?
100
Weather takes place along _________.
What is fronts?
100
These severe storms do not last long over land.
What is hurricanes?
200
Air naturally moves from __________ pressure zones to ________ pressure zones.
What is high to low?
200
Clouds that are fluffy heaps that form when warm air rises quickly.
What is cumulus?
200
Land breezes usually occur during what time of day?
What is at night?
200
Air masses are huge bodies of air that have these same two factors throughout
What is temperature and moisture (humidity)?
200
When warm air masses encounter cold, dry ones, severe thunderstorms are formed along the front in a region called the
What is squall line?
300
Weather occurs in this layer, the lowest layer of the atmosphere.
What is the troposphere?
300
Four categories of air masses: arctic, polar, tropical, and equatorial are all identified based on this.
What is temperature?
300
Global winds curve as they move from high to low pressure zones due to the rotation of the Earth, this concept is called
What is the coriolis effect?
300
Area where a warm, moist air mass slides over a withdrawing cold, dry air mass resulting in rain or snow.
What is a warm front?
300
Before a tornado touches the ground, it is called this
What is a funnel cloud?
400
The state of the atmosphere in an area at any one time.
What is weather?
400
Air masses are separated into 2 categories, maritime and continental based on this
What is humidity?
400
This type of wind occurs during the day as the land heats up and rises, high pressure air above the water blows toward the land.
What is a sea breeze?
400
When two air masses come together and stop moving, the boundary is called
What is a stationary front?
400
Strong cyclones that are tropical in origin.
What is a hurricane?
500
High-pressure zones are usually associated with which type of weather?
What is fair weather?
500
Warmer air can hold more ____________ than cold air.
What is moisture?
500
What is the source of wind and weather?
What is the sun?
500
Where two cold air masses move toward each other and trap a warm air mass between, lifting it up.
What is an occluded front?
500
The average weather experienced by a region over a period of several years.
What is climate?