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Atmosphere
Air Pressure
Wind
Precipitation
Masses and Fronts
100
The most abundant gas in Earth's atmosphere
What is Nitrogen?
100
The tool used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
100
The starting location of a land breeze.
What is land?
100
The most common type of precipitation.
What is rain?
100
A body of air with the same temperature, pressure, and relative humidity.
What is an air mass?
200
The second most abundant gas in Earth's atmosphere.
What is oxygen?
200
The SI unit used to measure air pressure.
What is millibars (mb)?
200
The location with higher air pressure when a land breeze blows.
What is the land?
200
The type of precipitation that skips the liquid phase.
What is snow?
200
The boundary between a fast moving warm air mass and a slower cold air mass.
What is a warm front?
300
The main gas in the atmospheres of Mars and Venus.
What is carbon dioxide?
300
Air pressure moves from areas of_____ pressure to _____ pressure.
What is High to Low?
300
The effect of the rotation of Earth on Global winds.
What is the Coriollis Effect? (Winds generally curve East to West)
300
The type of precipitation that falls as a liquid and turns into a solid when it hits the ground.
What is freezing rain?
300
The front followed by fair weather.
What is a cold front?
400
The layer of the atmosphere where weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
400
The relative speed of low pressure air.
What is fast?
400
The driving force causing land and sea breezes to blow.
What is air pressure differences?
400
The type of precipitation that is smaller and falls as a solid.
What is sleet?
400
The front that brings long lasting rain.
What is a warm front?
500
The main layer containing ozone.
What is the stratosphere?
500
The force that pushes airplanes up.
What is lift?
500
The global wind over the continental United States
Prevailing Westerlies
500
The type of precipitation that grows in size as it bounces around thunder clouds.
What is hail?
500
The direction fronts move across the United States.
What is South West to North East?