A boundary between two different air masses, resulting in stormy weather.
What is a front?
100
A type of front represented by a red curve with half-circles.
What is a warm front?
100
A warm swift current in the Atlantic Ocean that flows from the Gulf of Mexico along the eastern coast of the United States and then northeast toward Europe.
What is the Gulf Stream?
100
It describes the condition of the air at a particular time and place.
What is weather?
200
They are intense storms with swirling winds up to 150 miles per hour, usually around 300 miles across.
What are hurricanes?
200
A boundary between two air masses, one cold and the other warm, moving so that the colder air replaces the warmer air.
What is a cold front?
200
The type of front represented by a blue curve with triangles.
What is a cold front?
200
A whirling mass of cool, dry air that generally brings fair weather and light winds.
What is a high pressure system?
200
It describes the average weather conditions in a certain place or during a certain season.
What is climate?
300
It begins as a funnel cloud with spinning columns of air that drop down from a severe thunderstorm. It touches the ground, and can have wind speeds up to 300 miles an hour.
What is a tornado?
300
A combination of two fronts that form when a cold front catches up and overtakes a warm front.
What is an occluded front?
300
A system represented by a large letter "H".
What is a high pressure system?
300
Generally move short distances and can blow in any direction. Caused by geographic features that cause temperature differences.
What are local winds?
300
The side of an object that is facing into the direction that the wind is coming from.
What is the windward side?
400
It’s a low-pressure disturbance that forms over warm tropical ocean waters. In the United States, this type of storm has winds between 39-73 m.p.h.
What is a tropical storm?
400
The boundary between two air masses, one cool and the other warm, moving so that the warmer air replaces the cooler air.
What is a warm front?
400
A system represented by a large letter "L".
What is a low pressure system?
400
Winds which blow from tropical high pressure belts toward the equatorial region of low pressure.
What are trade winds?
400
Three types: Polar Easterlies, Westerlies, Trade Winds
What are global winds?
500
It’s a low-pressure disturbance that forms over warm tropical ocean waters and produces winds of 38 m.p.h. or less.
What is a tropical depression?
500
The temperature at which water starts to condense out of a particular air mass.
What is the dew point?
500
The type of front represented by a connected blue and red curve, showing that there is little to no movement between warm and cold fronts.
What is a stationary front?
500
It’s the ‘feel like’ temperature on a cold day when you factor in the winds.
What is wind chill?
500
A force that deflects moving objects to one side because of the Earth’s rotation. The object is still going straight but the Earth moves underneath it, making it look like it is moving to one side.