Measuring Weather
Elements of Weather
Wind
Weather Fronts
Air Masses
100
Thermometer
What measures the temperature of the atmosphere?
100
The condition of the atmosphere at a certain time and place.
What is the definition of weather?
100
Movement of air from areas of high air pressure to areas of low air pressure.
What is wind?
100
The boundary between two large masses of air that have the same temperature and humidity.
What is a weather front?
100
An air mass
What is a large area of air that has the same temperature and humidity?
200
Anemometer
What measures the speed of the wind?
200
Temperature
What is how hot or cold the air is outside?
200
High pressure sinking over the sea and moving toward the low pressure over the land.
What is the movement of air in a sea breeze?
200
The names of the 2 fronts that have either
Blue triangles or Red semi-circles.
What are a cold front and a warm front?
200
An air mass that forms over the South Atlantic Ocean.
What is a maritime Tropical air mass?
300
Psychrometer
What measures the relative humidity of the air?
300
Relative humidity
What is the percentage (%) of water vapor in the air compared to 100% saturated air?
300
The way a land breeze moves.
What is the movement of air from the high pressure above the land to the low pressure over the sea?
300
A cold, dry air mass is pushing a warm moist air mass upward causing severe weather.
What is a cold front?
300
The condition of a continental Polar air mass.
What is a dry and cold air mass that forms over Northern Canada?
400
Barometer
What measures the pressure of the air?
400
Clear and sunny weather
What is the weather caused by a high pressure system?
400
The name of the cause of why global winds curve.
What is the coriolis effect or rotation of the Earth?
400
A mT air mass is overtaking a cP air mass.What is a warm front?
400
The letters of the type of air that is behind a cold front.
What is either mP or cP?
500
3 to 4 known landmarks
What measures the visibility of the air?
500
Low Pressure system
What is the system that causes stormy weather?
500
A rotating column of air that forms out of cumulonimbus clouds and hurricanes.
What is a tornado?
500
The weather that occurs after a cold front passes by a location.
What is cool and dry with clear skies?
500
Weather that is warm and humid.
What is the weather of a location after an mT warm front has passed?