A large body of air that has properties similar to the part of Earth's surface which is develops over.
What is an air mass?
100
A storm in which there is thunder, lightning, heavy rains, and wind.
What is a thunderstorm?
100
The source of thermal energy for our Earth.
What is the sun?
100
Land absorbs and releases heat quicker than water, so _____ can occurs due to convection currents in the air where land and water meet.
What is wind (or a breeze)?
100
This instrument measures atmospheric pressure.
What is a barometer?
200
This forms at the boundary between two air masses.
What is a front?
200
This storm contains a rapidly, whirling, funnel-shaped cloud that extends down from a storm cloud. It can rip buildings apart and uproot trees. People should go to a basement during this type of storm.
What is a tornado?
200
The solar energy is both _______ and _______ by earth.
What is absorbed and reflected?
200
Convection is created in the air because warm air _____ and cold air _____.
What is rises and sinks?
200
A prediction that can be tested.
What is a hypothesis?
300
This type of front occurs when a strong warm air mass collides and rides over a weaker cold air mass.
What is a warm front?
300
This type of storm is the most powerful. It is a large, swirling system that forms over a warm ocean.
What is a hurricane?
300
Heats up and releases its heat fairly quickly.
What is land?
300
The land and water on earth are all different temperatures because of this.
What is the curvature of earth?
300
The two most common gases in the atmosphere.
What are nitrogen and oxygen?
400
In this type of front, thunderstorms and tornadoes are possible as well as cooler temperatures.
What is a cold front?
400
This type of pressure system usually signals more fair weather.
What is a high-pressure system?
400
The natural heating process on Earth where heat is trapped in the atmosphere similar to how a blanket works.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
400
Earth's three different climate zones.
What are tropical, temperate and polar?
400
The layers of the atmosphere in order from Earth's surface to space.
What are the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere?
500
This type of front occurs when a cold air mass pushes into a warm air mass that is behind a cool air mass, and the warm air mass is pushed above the cooler air masses.
What is an occluded front?
500
This type of pressure system usually results in rainy and/or stormy weather conditions such as a tornado or hurricane.
What is a low-pressure system?
500
This regulates the temperatures on Earth so the temperature doesn't change a lot in one day.
What is water?
500
Due to the temperature absorption of land and water, during the day when the land is warmer than the ocean, a _____ occurs.
What is sea breeze?
500
The type of clouds that form at medium to low elevation and are puffy with flat bottoms.