Air
Nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and water vapor
What are the main components of the air?
The process of converting water vapor into liquid water.
What is condensation?
What is the cause of earth's tides?
The gravitational pull of the moon, primarily, with some influence by the sun.
What is the length of time for a full lunar cycle?
29 days, or 4 weeks
The momentary, day by day conditions at a specific location, not the general conditions.
What is weather?
The leading edge of an air mass.
What is a front?
A pressure system that will bring clear skies.
What is a high pressure system?
What is the tide with the smallest difference between high and low tide?
Neap tide
What is the shape seen when more than half of the moon is visible?
Gibbous
This causes the change in seasons.
What is the revolution of the earth on its tilted axis?
An air mass that forms over land.
What is a continental air mass?
When the northern hemisphere is tilted towards the sun.
What causes the summer season in the northern hemisphere?
Are storms such as thunderstorms more likely to develop near warm water or cold water?
Warm water
When the earth blocks sunlight from reaching the moon.
What is a lunar eclipse?
What side of the mountain experiences the rain shadow?
The leeward side
a front that occurs when warm and cold air masses collide and move in the same direction.
What is a occluded front?
The angle of tilt of Earth's axis
23.5o
This United States coast has warmer water currents.
The east coast
The phase of the moon when the amount of light is growing each day. (touching the right side)
What is a waxing moon?
A type of climate that is influenced by a nearby ocean and has mild winters and cool summers.
What is a marine climate?
This air mass brings warm air from the equator.
What is a tropical air mass?
The front that stalls in one location for days with lots of stormy weather.
What is a stationary front?
What is the effect that causes clockwise rotation of currents in the Northern Hemisphere?
The Coriolis Effect
These moon phases cause a Spring Tide
What tide is caused by a new moon and a full moon?
What 2 factors impact climate?
Temperature and precipitation