Weather/Climate 1
The atmospheric conditions at a certain time and place.
What is weather?
The average weather pattern of a region over an extended period of time.
What is climate?
Thin wispy clouds that form at a high altitudes
What are cirrus clouds?
Depicted on a map with a blue line with blue triangles.
What is a cold front?
Clouds that produce heavy rain and thunderstorms
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
A large region of the atmosphere in which the air has similar properties throughout.
What is an air mass?
This powerful storm forms from thunderstorms over warm ocean water.
What is a hurricane?
Instrument that measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
What is a meteorologist?
This type of cloud forms very close to the ground.
What is fog?
When a warm air mass pushes in and rises over a cold air mass and brings light rain.
What is a warm front?
Between high and low pressure systems, wind flows in this direction.
What is from high pressure to low pressure?
These are factors than can influence a location's climate. (name at least two)
What is amount of sunlight/latitude, elevation, proximity to water, geography, etc.?
This is how snow forms.
What is when temperatures in clouds are below freezing and water vapor turns directly into ice crystals.
Depicted on a weather map as a red "L"
What is low pressure system?
This type of weather occurs when a cold front approaches.
What is thunderstorms and heavy rain?
The speed that winds need to reach for a tropical storm to become a hurricane.
What is 74mph / 119 kph?
SAFE JEOPARDY: The Earth's spin/rotation causes wind to spin/curve either to the right or the left because of this phenomenon.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
This explains why hail can grow as large as softballs in some areas.
What is strong updrafts in thunderstorms that keep hailstones suspended and growing?
Scientists observe a humid, warm air mass overtaking a cold air mass, gently rising above it. They predict this type of weather is approaching.
What is light and continuous rain?
Scientists identify this type of front approaching, where a warm air mass is caught between two cold air masses.
What is an occluded front?
Dust particles act as this, allowing water vapor to cling on to form clouds.
What is condensation nuclei?