Fronts
Climate Zones
Air Masses
Forecasting
Climate Factors
100
This type of front is slow moving, and it brings warm, humid air.
Warm front
100
This climate zone is characterized by receiving less than 25cm of rain per year.
Desert
100
This type of circulating air has high pressure at its core and lower pressure outside the sytem.
High pressure system
100
This type of scientist specializes in weather.
Meteorologist
100
Why does latitude affect a location's temperature?
The higher in latitude you go, the closer you get to the poles where it is very cold. Zero degrees latitude is the equator where it is very hot.
200
This type of front occurs when a warm and a cold air mass collide, but neither has enough energy to push the other out of the way.
Stationary front.
200
How many different climates did we focus on in class?
Six
**BONUS POINTS**
Starting with the team who answered correctly, go clockwise with each team listing one of the six climate zones. 50pts for each correct answer.
200
What kind of air masses form near the equator?
Tropical
200
List three types of major storm.
Thunderstorm, tornado, blizzard, hurricane
200
Why is deforestation doubly bad for climate change?
Because we have to burn fossil fuels to log a forest, and then there aren't as many trees left to convert carbon dioxide into oxygen.
300
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Cold Front
300
This climate zone is colder than surrounding areas due to a particularly high altitude.
Highlands
300
This type of line indicates an air mass that has equal air pressure throughout.
Isobars
300
What do the lines on this map represent?
Isobars: lines of equal pressure
**BONUS QUESTION**
What would this be called if they were lines of equal temperature? (100pts)
300
List two of the three short-term climate cycles we discussed in class.
Seasons, monsoons, and/or El Nino/La Nina
400
Describe how an occluded front is formed.
A warm airmass gets sandwiched between two cold air masses moving in the same direction.
**BONUS QUESTION**
Describe what the weather map symbol for an occluded front looks like. (50pts)
400
Describe two characteristics of a temperate marine climate.
Mild, rainy winters. Humid year round. Warm, wet summers that aren't as hot as the tropics.
400
An air mass is a large body of air with uniform properties. What are the three properties that define air masses?
Temperature, pressure, humidity
400
During an El Nino event, the easterly trade winds weaken bringing wet weather to the south and dry weather to the north. Which wind system takes over, and which directly does it blow from?
Jet Stream, the west
400
Why do large bodies of water influence the climate on nearby land?
Because water heats up and cools down more slowly than land.
500
What kind of a front is represented by this image, and what kind of weather does it bring to an area?
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Stationary front; prolonged precipitation
500
Which climate zone does Pennsylvania belong to?
Temperate continental climate - humid continental
500
What type of air mass brings cold, dry air?
Polar continental air mass
500
Describe how doppler radar is different from regular radar.
Radar uses electromagnetic waves to detect the location of an object. Doppler radar can detect the location of an object as well as the direction and speed it is moving.
**BONUS QUESTION**
Describe the doppler effect, and how that is used to detect the direction of particles (500pts)
500
Describe the "rain shadow" effect.
When rain clouds run into a mountain, they may produce rainfall, leaving the other side of the mountain dry.