A boundary where two different air masses meet and cause a change in weather.
What is a front
100
This is the layer of gases surrounding the earth.
What is the atmosphere?
100
The trapping of the sun’s UV Rays that heats the earth.
What is the Greenhouse effect?
100
A stationary front looks like this.
What is alternating blue triangles and red semi-circles?
200
Tall, dense clouds that fill the sky during a thunderstorm, bringing hail, lightning and heavy rain.
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
200
At the equator warm air______and at the poles cold air_____.
What is rises and sinks?
200
This is the layer that weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
200
Water returns to the Earth during this phase of the water cycle.
What is precipitation?
200
Convection currents result in uneven heating of the Earth’s surface which results in_______.
What is wind?
300
Low clouds that can form fog.
What is a stratus cloud?
300
Tornados and hurricanes develop over the following.
What is high pressure systems?
300
The layer of the atmosphere from closest to the earth are...
What is the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere?
300
These are the percentages of the three main gases in our atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen (78%) Oxygen (21%) and Other gases (1%)?
300
A process in the water cycle where water changes from a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
400
In the water cycle, water in the air forms clouds. This causes the clouds to form.
What is condensation?
400
Air masses generally move this way in the United States.
What is west to east?
400
Greenhouse gases are gases that trap heat within the earth’s atmosphere. A cause in the increase in these of these greenhouse gases would be...
What is an increase in global temperatures?
400
These winds are always blowing in long distances and specific patterns.
What are global winds?
400
These are the types of winds we have here in the United States.
What are Westerlies?
500
Global winds are found in each convection region. Convection cells are set in the atmosphere and the earth is spinning on its axis. The apparent curving of winds is called...
What is the corriolis effect?
500
A large section of air with the same temperature and amount of moisture.
What is an air mass?
500
Solar energy heats the surface of the earth. As the earth’s temperature increases heat energy is released back into the atmosphere. As warm air rises it is replaced by cooler air. This process is called________.
What is convection?
500
The weight of the air pushing down on us.
What is air pressure?
500
This state in the Southeast would likely experience a warm front.