Heat Transfer
This type of heat transfer occurs when molecules collide directly.
What is conduction?
Air moves from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure, creating this.
What is wind?
An air mass gets its temperature and humidity characteristics from this place.
What is its source region?
This rotating column of air forms from supercell thunderstorms and can cause extreme damage.
What is a tornado?
This local wind blows from the ocean toward land during the day because the land heats faster.
What is a sea breeze?
The Sun warms Earth’s surface, which then heats the air above it. This is an example of this heat-transfer process.
What is convection?
These fast-moving rivers of air in the upper troposphere guide weather systems across continents.
What are jet streams?
A cP air mass brings cold, dry weather because it forms over this type of surface.
What is cold land?
This warm-core, low-pressure storm forms over tropical oceans and strengthens from warm water.
What is a hurricane?
Local winds are caused by this type of heating between land and water.
What is uneven heating?
This form of heat transfer is the only one that does not require matter to travel through.
What is radiation?
This global wind belt lies closest to the equator and is known for weak, unreliable winds.
What are doldrums?
An mT air mass would most likely bring warm, humid weather because it forms over this.
What is a warm ocean?
Tornadoes most often form when warm, moist air from the Gulf meets this type of cooler, drier air.
What is continental polar air?
A sea breeze front can create thunderstorms near the coast when moist ocean air rises rapidly over hotter land. This type of air motion makes that possible.
What is a convection current?
When a sea breeze forms, this type of heat transfer causes warm air to rise over land and cool air to sink over the ocean.
What is a convection current?
The rotation of Earth causes winds and currents to curve. This effect has a scientific name.
What is the Coriolis effect?
When two air masses meet and neither can push the other out of the way, this type of front forms.
What is a stationary front?
The strongest part of a hurricane, where winds are fastest.
What is the eyewall?
A continental polar (cP) air mass moves south and meets a maritime tropical (mT) air mass moving north. This sharp temperature contrast often creates this severe weather event in the central U.S.
What is a tornado outbreak or severe thunderstorm?
During nighttime, the land cools faster than the ocean. This temperature difference reverses convection currents to create this specific local wind.
What is a land breeze?
These winds blow from 30° latitude toward the equator and helped sailors cross oceans during the Age of Exploration.
What are trade winds?
The main reason different air masses don’t easily mix is because they differ in these two key properties.
What temperature and humidity?
A tornado warning means this specific situation is happening.
What is a tornado has been spotted or detected on radar?
A warm, humid mT air mass moves over a much colder surface, creating strong conduction cooling and thick clouds. A strengthening low-pressure system is pulled northward by the jet stream, and cold polar winds feed into the system. What major weather event is likely to form?
What is a snowstorm or blizzard?