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Clouds
Air Mass/Fronts
Pressure Systems/Severe Storms
Global Weather Patterns
Air Quality
100
Three primary cloud types.
What are the cumulus, stratus, and cirrus clouds?
100
A large area of air with the same level of temperature and level of humidity throughout.
What is an air mass?
100
What is Jack Snyder's favorite type of cookie?
Sugar
100
What is the worst pretzel?
one with no salt
100
Measure of air pollution in our air
What is air quality?
200
A mid-level stratus cloud
What is altostratus?
200
Where two air masses meet.
What is a front?
200
Tornados weaken when there is no more of this
What is warm air?
200
Fast moving air current in the upper atmosphere
What is the Jet Stream?
200
Air pollution exists as either a ____________ or __________________
What is gas or particulate
300
Mrs. Aichele's favorite restaurant
What is Eez?
300
When a cold air mass moves in toward a warm air mass and produces violent rainy storms and sometimes snow. Cooler temperatures follow.
What is a cold front?
300
Two ingredients needed for a hurricane
What is warmth and moisture?
300
Why wind and water bend in a certain direction instead of moving in a straight line
What is the Coriolis Effect?
300
A tool used to measure air quality
What is an Air Quality Index
400
When the air becomes saturated and water vapor turns into water droplets.
What are clouds?
400
When a warm air mass moves in toward a cool air mass. Steady precipitation and warm temperatures occur.
What is warm front?
400
Forms over the ocean and is our Earth's largest storm
What is a hurricane?
400
Weather in the Northern Hemisphere vs. the Southern Hemisphere
What is opposite?
400
How air pollution travels
What is wind?
500
The way scientists classify clouds.
What is shape and altitude?
500
When a warm air mass and a cool air mass meet and neither mass moves. Clouds and on and off precipitation occurs.
What is a stationary front?
500
A whirling mass of cool dry air, moves in a clockwise rotation and typically produces nice weather.
What is a high pressure system?
500
Climate at the equator
What are warm temperatures, little wind, and high humidity?
500
The three biggest contributors to poor air quality
What are power plants, transportation vehicles, and factories?