Weather & Climate
The condition of the atmosphere in your area at any given moment.
What is the weather?
What is thermal energy?
The Earth's major external source of energy.
What is the sun?
A violent disturbance in the atmosphere.
What is a storm?
What is from a hotter object to a cooler one?
The long-term weather patterns in an area.
What is climate?
Desccribes movement of the molecules in a fluid that is being heated.
What is a convection current?
What is the equator?
The name of the doctor who developed the scale for classifying tornadoes by wind speed.
Who is Dr. Ted Fujita?
What is an air mass?
As you get further away from the equator temperatures __________.
The 3 types of heat transfer.
What is conduction, convection, & radiation?
What is the Coriolis Effect?
a type of precipitation that involves the falling of solid ice from storm clouds.
What is hail?
The climate that can be found in the state of Florida.
What is a trropical climate?
describe the movement of thermal energy from a stove to a steak in a pan.
Energy is first transferred from the stove to the pan, then heat is transferred from the pan to the the steak.
The number of large convection currents that occur in the atmosphere due to the uneven heating of the planet.
What is 6?
The four types of severe storms.
(100 points for each correct answer)
What are hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, thunderstorms?
explain why we always see lightning before hearing the thunder.
The factors that affect climate.
(100 points for each correct response)
(answer may be found in unit 3 notes)
What is altitude, latitude, distance from large bodies of water, ocean currents, and prevailing winds?
On a hot day, Troy walks out to his driveway and opens his car door. He is then his in the face with wave of warm air. When he sat down inside his car the metal part of his seatbelt burned him.
Describe the forms of heat transfer in this example.
(must get all 3 correct)
Radiation from the sun to the Earth making a hot day
Convection inside of his car made the are hot which rose into his face as he opens the door
conduction from the seatbelt to Troy's skin
The movement of wind from the ocean to the beach is described as ______________.
The movement of wind from the beach to the ocean is known as ____________.
What is sea breeze & land breeze?
A tropical storm with wind speeds of 160 mph.
(be specific)
What is a category 5 hurrincae?
The type of front created when 2 cold air masses collide with a warmer air mass.
What is an occluded front?