Air Masses/Fronts
What is warm, dry air.
This type of storm only occurs over warm ocean air?
What is a hurricane
What is the Earth's atmosphere
When does the northern hemisphere receive the fewest direct rays from the sun?
What is the winter solstice
Which effect is most likely from a hurricane: forest fires from lightning strikes, damaged homes from flooding, or damaged personal property due to hail.
What air mass forms over cold water?
What is maritime polar (Mp)
This helps create the spin in a hurricane
What is the Coriolis effect
Which technology collects weather date from space?
What are satellites
What contributes to the formation of polar, temperate, and tropical zones?
T or F. Ocean currents create changes in the temperature of air over land masses.
What is True
What happens to jet streams as they get closer to the equator?
What is they blow slower
In what kind of clouds do thunderstorms form?
What is cumulonimbus clouds
What technology doe meteorologists use to create forecasts?
What are weather service maps
T or F. Climate is what you see outside, and weather is what you expect the weather to be.
What is False, climate is what you expect the weather to be.
This air mass forms over water with cool, moist air.
What is a maritime polar air mass.
What is a cold front
Which weather event is typically brief containing strong winds.
What is a tornado
What is an isoline
When do both hemispheres get the same energy from the sun.
What is spring and fall.
What is a swirling center of low-pressure air?
What is a cyclone
What is a stationary front
Which two characteristics are shared by all thunderstorms, tornados, and hurricanes.
What are clouds and winds
In the US, fronts usually move in what direction
What is from west to east due to the direction of the jet stream and earth's rotation.
Why does a coastal area have less variation in temperature than a non-coastal area.
This is the primary factor in temperature control
What is latitude