Weather
This is the instrument that measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
This is the type of pressure associated with bad weather.
What is low pressure?
Wind always blows from ____ to _______.
What is high pressure to low pressure?
What is a stationary front?
The number on the top left of a station model represents this.
What is air temperature?
This is the process of liquid water from plants converting into water vapor.
What is transpiration?
A rapidly falling air pressure might indicate that one of these systems is approaching.
What is a storm?
This phenomenon is the reason why winds appear to curve along the surface of Earth.
What is Coriolis?
This would be the name of an air mass that originated over central Canada.
What is Continental Polar, or cP?
A station model pressure "code" of 247 actually stands for this air pressure level. (Include units!!)
What is 1024.7 mb?
This is the part of the water cycle that happens when air temperatures reaches the dewpoint.
What is condensation?
This is the direction that air moves around a low pressure center. (Towards vs away, clockwise vs counter-clockwise)
What is towards and counter-clockwise?
This prevailing wind pattern causes weather to move towards the East in the USA.
What are the Westerlies?
This is the temperature of air that is found in front of a cold front.
What is warm air?
A snow shower is represented by this symbol.
What is [see board]?
This is a step of the water cycle that is responsible for creating the gypsum precipitates in White Sands National Park.
What is evaporation?
This level of pressure explains why there is no rain behind a cold front.
What is high pressure?
This is the relationship between wind speed and pressure in a cyclone/hurricane.
What is as wind speed increases, pressure decreases? (Inverse/indirect relationship)
This is the type of air mass that may spawn a tropical cyclone (hurricane).
What is maritime tropical, or mT?
A station model with an air temperature of 68 and a dewpoint of 68 would have this relative humidity.
What is 100%?
Clouds form when air does these three things.
What is rise, expand, and cool?
This why the clouds extend higher at 0o than at 60oN.
What is warm air is less dense?
Explain why a sailboat crossing the ocean might get stuck at 30o N.
Describe the changes (increase or decrease) that would take place to the following factors when a cold front comes through:
- Cloud Cover
- Chance of Precipitation
- Air Temperature
What is
- Cloud Cover increases
- Chance of Precipitation increases
- Air Temperature decreases
In the Merry Go Round video demonstrating the Coriolis Effect, this is the shirt color of the person that caught the volleyball.
What is blue?