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Weather Review
100
Scientists record patterns in weather conditions across time and place to make predictions about what kind of weather might occur next. The name for the predictions is __________.
What is a forecast?
100
This is a huge body of air that has similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure at any given height.
What is an air mass?
100
I represent this on a weather map.
What is a cold front?
100
It is a layer of gases that surrounds the Earth that supports life.
What is the atmosphere?
100
When water droplets in the air become too heavy they fall as a result of gravity in the form of _________.
What is precipitation?
200
__________ describes the range of an area’s typical weather conditions and the extent to which those conditions vary over long periods of time.
What is climate?
200
These are curved lines on a map that connect areas of equal pressure
What are isobars?
200
This type of pressure brings fair weather with clear skies.
What is high pressure?
200
The gas which makes up about 3/4 of the air that surrounds earth.
What is Nitrogen?
200
________ is the source of the heat energy that drives the water cycle
What is the sun?
300
I am a prediction about the weather.
What is a forecast?
300
This is when a cold and warm air mass meet, by neither can move the other.
What is a stationary front?
300
I represent this on a weather map.
What is a warm front?
300
This gas makes up about 21% of the air that surrounds earth.
What is oxygen?
300
Thunderstorms are associated with this type of front.
What is a cold front?
400
This is a boundary where two air masses of different pressure meet.
What is a front?
400
Air temperature is measured using a/an ________.
What is a thermometer?
400
The part of a weather map that defines the symbols.
What is the key?
400
Water in the form of a gas is located in the layer of air that is closest to earth. The name for water in the form of gas is ____________.
What is water vapor?
400
This type of front occurs when a cold air mass overtakes a warm air mass and pushes the warm air mass upwards.
What is a cold front?
500
A scientists who studies the weather
What is a meteorologists?
500
Temperature can be measured in two different degrees, ______________and/or _______________.
What is Fahrenheit or Celsius?
500
According to the weather map, ______ is experiencing the coldest weather.
What is Denver?
500
The layer of the atmosphere that is closest to the Earth’s surface.
What is the troposphere?
500
The four main processes in the water cycle
What are evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff?