Vocabulary
Measures how hot or cold the weather is.
What is a thermometer?
Scientists who study and measure weather conditions.
Who is a meteorologist?
It provides energy for making weather.
What is the sun?
A front.
What happens when two air masses meet?
Water going from a gas to a liquid (cools or loses energy).
What is condensation?
Measures the speed of the wind.
What is an anemometer?
An instrument that measures the temperature in the air.
What is a thermometer?
Large bodies of air which can cover thousands of kilometers.
What is an Air Mass?
A line with blue triangles on a weather map.
What is the symbol for a cold front?
Temporary behavior of the atmosphere (what’s going on at any certain time)
What is the weather?
Measures air pressure
What is a barometer?
When there is a Falling Barometer
Why is air pressure (the "weight" of the air above us) is getting lower
Two properties used to describe air masses.
What are moisture content and temperature?
A line with red half circles on a weather map.
What is the symbol for a warm front?
Climate zones are Earth's main regions with similar weather, like the tropical, temperate, and polar zones
What is Climate Zones?
Describes and area that is wet on one side and dry on the other side
What is the Rain Shadow Effect effect?
Weather associated with a Falling Barometer.
What is BAD weather?
Spins counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere.
What is Low pressure
Main line that separates the earth into the Northern and Southern Hemisphere.
What is the equator?
Two tools used to find wind direction.
What are a weather vane and a windsock?
A Maritime Tropical air mass is..
What is warm and wet?
A front that stops moving.
What is a stationary front?
The line with blue triangles and red half circles on different sides on a weather map.
What is the symbol for a stationary front?