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Wind
Clouds
Earth/Phenomina
Climate/Weather
Weather
100
When cold air moves under warm air, often bringing drier air.
What is a cold front?
100
Puffy, Billowing shaped clouds.
What is cumulus clouds?
100
Dark areas that appear temporarily on the surface of the Sun.
What is Sunspots
100
The process by which water molecules leave a lake and enter the atmosphere.
What is Evaporation?
100
When warm air moves over cold, denser air.
What is a warm front?
200
A wind that blows from the sea towards land.
What is a sea breeze?
200
These appear in layers, and can cover a large area of the sky.
What is a stratus cloud?
200
The layers of gases that surround Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
200
The process by which a gas changes into a liquid.
What is Condensation?
200
This forms on the leeward side of a mountain during a storm.
What is a rain shadow?
300
A circular pattern of rising air, sinking air, and winds.
What is a convection cell?
300
Thin, featherlike clouds that form when wind is strong, and found at high altitude.
What are Cirrus clouds?
300
The layer of the earth that is the closest to Earth.
What is the troposphere?
300
The cause of increased wind speeds over the entire Earth, due to the Coriolis Effect.
What is Earth rotating faster.
300
Strong winds will occur because of these, and when they thicken you can predict a change in weather.
What is Cirrus Clouds.
400
Lines on a weather map that provide an indication of wind speed.
What are isobars?
400
These clouds indicate fair weather. However, when these clouds get larger, they can produce heavy rain or snow.
What are Cumulus Clouds.
400
Forms when heat and evaporation of water produce a large region of low pressure.
What is a hurricane?
400
A weather pattern of warm summers and mild winters.
What is maritime climate?
400
A warm air mass that is trapped between two colder air masses.
What is an occluded front?
500
Winds move a certain way on the earth's surface because of this.
What is the Coriolis Effect.
500
The three types of clouds discussed in class.
What are cirrus, stratus, and cumulus clouds.
500
Forms when cold, dry air mixes with warm, moist air.
What is a tornado?
500
A weather pattern of hot summers, cold winters, and low annual precipitation.
What is continental climate?
500
Thunderstorms over tropical oceans near the equator and winds traveling from 2 different directions converging at a single point.
What is a hurricane?