Air Masses and Weather Fronts
Which one is a weather front where a warm air mass pushes a cold air mass out of the way?
warm front, cold front, occluded front, stationary front
warm front
This is the water vapor condensing around dust particles into liquid water in the atmosphere.
Your choices are:
Condensation, Precipitation, Cloud Formation, or Groud Water Flow
What is Cloud Formation
What continent is in the Polar Zone?
Antartica, Africa, United States, or South America
What is Antartica.
The Coriolis Effect causes fluids to appear to ______.
bend, sink, float, or rise
bend
This describes how air circulates due to the cooling and heating of air molecules.
Spinning, Circulation, Convection, Condensation
These types of wind blow in one direction and are responsible for moving air masses.
light winds, polar winds, gusty winds, prevailing wind
Prevailing Winds
What is the process of water falling out of the atmosphere?
Precipitation, Cloud Formation, Groundwater Flow, or Water Collection
What is precipitation.
What are imaginary parallel lines on maps are called? The Prime Meridian, Lines of Longitude, The Greenwich Meridian, or Lines of Latitude
Lines of Latitude
The United States is found in which climate zone?
Tropical, Temperate, Sub-tropical, or Polar
Temperate
A weather front where an air mass gets separated from the ground.
Occluded Front, Cold Front, Warm Front, Stationary Front
Occluded Front
This is a weather front where a cold air mass pushes a warm air mass out of the way, resulting in rain.
Cold Front, Stationary Front, Occluded Front, or Warm Front
Cold Front
What is the process of matter changing from a solid to a liquid?
Evaporation, Melting, Crystallization, or Condensation
What is melting.
Which one of these does wind cause?
ocean tides, rain storms, deep ocean currents, or surface ocean currents
It's a Switcheroo!
True or False:
Greenhouse gases are good for the Earth. Why?
True! Without greenhouse gases we would freeze on Earth, but too many greenhouse gases can be bad.
Wow! You're lucky!
You will be given enough points to be tied for first place! If you are already in first, you don't get any more points.
What is the process of matter changing from a liquid to a solid?
Condensation, Evaporation, Melting, or Crystallization
What is crystallization.
Which climate zone receives the least amount of sunlight?
Temperate, Polar, Sub-tropical, or Tropical
Polar Zone
Fill in the blank:
Warm air ______.
sinks, originates at the poles, is red, rises
rises
This is a measure of how much water is in the air.
Humidity, Air Mass, Air Bubble, or Cloud
Humidity
Which one is a weather front where two air masses collide, but neither one pushes the other out of the way?
Occluded Front, Stationary Front, Warm Front, and Cold Front
Stationary Front
What is the process of matter changing from a gas to a liquid?
Evaporation, Condensation, Crystallization, or Melting
What is condensation.
Fill in the blank:
Cold air is _________ than warm air.
originates at the equator, is always blue, more dense, less dense
more dense
It's a Switcheroo!
Switch points with another team.
What has increased at about the same rate as global temperatures over the past 100 years?
Tree Rings, Carbon Dioxide, Sunlight reaching Earth, Volcanic Eruptions
Carbon Dioxide