air pressure and wind
A wind that blows from land to sea.
What is a land breeze
What does a rain gauge measure?
What is precipitation?
When do clouds form?
When enough water droplets come together and are visible in the sky.
what always occurs at a front?
what is Precipitation
What are westerlies?
Westerlies are winds that blow west to east.
Wind that blows from sea to land.
What is a sea breeze
What does a wind vane measure?
What is wind direction.
What are the clouds that look like cotton balls in the sky?
Cumulus clouds
what is a warm front?
A warm air mass approaches a cold air mass and slowly slides above it.
What is the jet stream?
A jet stream is a moving tube of air that flows west to east high above the u.s.
What weather does a low pressure area bring?
Warm,wet,cloudy,precipitation
What does an anemometer measure?
What is wind speed.
What is the wispy cloud made of ice crystals?
cirrus clouds
When two air masses meet it is called ?
what is a front.
What is a la nina?
The unusual cooling of the water in the pacific ocean.
What weather does a high pressure system bring?
Cool,Clear,Dry,Fair
What does a barometer measure?
What is air pressure.
What kind of cloud is fog?
Fog is stratus clouds touching earths surface.
What is a cold front?
A cold front is when a cold air mass pushes under a warm air mass forcing the warm air up quickly.
What is the gulf stream?
The gulf stream is a warm ocean current that flows north from the equator along the eastern coast of the u.s.
Air likes to move from areas with______ air pressure to areas with______ Air pressure.
High to low areas
What does a hydrometer measure?
What is humidity.
Cumulonimbus clouds cause
Thunderstorms
What kind of weather does an occluded front bring?
Strong winds and heavy rain.
witch ocean do El Ninos occur?
What is the pacific ocean.