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Earth's Atmosphere
Air Currents and Temperature
Severe Weather
Severe Weather cont'd
Common Sense Weather
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The air that surrounds the earth.
What is atmosphere
100
This moves air from high pressure over water to low pressure over land.
What is a sea breeze?
100
The average weather conditions of a place.
What is climate
100
A rainstorm with thunder and lightning
What is a thunderstorm
100
Go here if a tornado or other high winds occured
What is a place with no windows
200
The amount of air pressing onto an area
What is air pressure
200
This moves the high pressure air over land to lower pressure over water.
What is a land breeze
200
An ongoing movement of ocean water.
What is a current?
200
A spinning cloud shaped like a funnel with high winds
What is a tornado
200
On a hot summer day when it is 100 degrees in San Jose, it will be __________ in Santa Cruz
What is cooler
300
The amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity
300
Heat travels through the movement of a gas or liquid to great this type of air.
What is convection?
300
The cold current along Peru sinks and the surface water becomes warmer. This happens every 7 years or so.Winds begin to blow towards the Americas.
What is El Nino?
300
a storm with low pressure at its center and spinning winds
What is a cyclone
300
There is a very _________ _____________ in California
What is a mild climate
400
a tool used to measure air pressure
What is a barometer
400
trade winds are a part of a system of winds blowing all around earth
What are global winds?
400
A large amount of air that has similar temperatures and humidity.
What is an air mass?
400
A large spinning storm that pulls in water vapor from the ocean.
What is a hurricane
400
The _______________ gets the most direct sunlight on earth
What is the equator
500
Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, and Exosphere.
What are the layers of the atmosphere from earth to space?
500
These winds blow from high to low pressure.
What are trade and global winds
500
The meeting place between two air masses.
What is a front?
500
A seasonal wind that brings heavy rain. It happens in Southeast Asia primarily.
What is a monsoon
500
One of the biggest changes happening to our earths atmosphere which affects the weather
What is Global Warming