Weather Conditions
Weather Patterns
Storms
World Climates
Reading a Map
100
The state of the atmosphere at a given time and place
What is weather?
100
A large section of the atmosphere with the same temperature and humidity throughout
What is an air mass?
100
A small, powerful wind storm with a funnel shaped cloud
What is a tornado?
100
The climate zone closest to the equator
What is the tropical zone?
100
Using the copy of the weather map, the cities that have clear skies
What are LA, Omaha, Winnipeg, Dallas, and New York?
200
The instrument used to measure air pressure 
What is a barometer?
200
In this type of front, a warm air mass glides up and over a cooler air mass
What is a warm front?
200
A severe tropical storm with high winds that revolves around an eye
What is a hurricane?
200
A tropical city near an ocean would have this type of weather compared to a tropical city in the mountains
What is rainer and cooler?
200
The kind of front heading toward Dallas and Chicago
What is a cold front?
300
The instrument used to find wind direction
What is a wind vane?
300
In this front, a cold air mass pushes out and wedges under a warmer air mass
What is a cold front?
300
How a thunderstorm forms
What is a cold front forces up warm air forming a thunderhead
300
This region has the greatest weather changes
What is a temperate climate?
300
Using the weather map, the kind of weather Dallas will have after the front passes
What is a short period of heavy showers followed by clear, cool weather?
400
Instrument used to measure wind speed
What is an anemometer?
400
Lines on a weather map connecting areas of equal pressure
What are isobars?
400
The conditions under which a hurricane forms
What is warm moist air over equatorial waters collects and begins to spin
400
These factors affect climate
What are  the angle sunlight hits the earth, how high a place is above sea level, and the nearness of large bodies of water
400
Using the weather map, explain what will happen to temperatures in Florida tomorrow
What is they will rise because a warm front is coming through?
500
An instrument used to measure relative humidity
What is a psychrometer?
500
When a cold air mass forces a warm air mass up quickly, this results
What is a short period of heavy rain?
500
These cause a hurricane to lose force
What are land and friction
500
A regions climate depends on these two factors
What are the average temperature pattern and average amount of precipitation in a year
500
Name at least TWO other weather symbols that could be added to the map AND how they would be useful
What are wind speed, wind direction, air pressure, and/or temperature?  They could provide information to assist in planning outdoor activities, making clothing or travel decisions, and being prepared for adverse weather.