Water Cycle
Weather Fronts
Heat Energy
Air Masses
Storms
Winds
100
The formation of clouds.
What is Condensation?
100
This front stays in place for an extended period causing long periods of precipitation.
What is a stationary front?
100
This heat transfer passes its heat from one form of matter to another form of matter by direct contact.
What is Conduction?
100
This North American air mass gets its characteristics from a source region over a cold piece of land.
What is Continental Polar?
100
A dark funnel of cloud extends below a storm and touches the ground.
What is a tornado?
100
The cause of global winds.
What is unequal heating of the Earth?
200
The process of liquid water changing into gas water (water vapor).
What is evaporation?
200
What this symbol represents on a weather map.
This gas is the most abundant type of gas in our atmosphere.
What is a cold front?
200
This heat transfer passes its heat from one form of matter to another form of matter through empty space.
What is Radiation?
200
The two things that cause air masses move in the United States.
What are Prevailing Westerlies and Jet Stream?
200
The strongest of storms, a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center.
What is a hurricane?
200
Occurs during the day when land warms faster than water causing a low pressure area over the land.
What is a sea breeze?
300
The process of water falling from the clouds to the ground.
What is precipitation?
300
When a warm air mass runs into a cold air mass and rises above it.
What is a warm front?
300
This heat transfer passes its heat through currents of fluids or air.
What is Convection?
300
This type of air mass is a low pressure system.
What is a warm air mass?
300
A storm with large amounts of snow, winds greater than 35 mph, and visibility of less than ΒΌ mile for at least three hours
What is a blizzard?
300
The reason winds moving from the equator to the north pole are deflected East (right).
What is the Coriolis Effect?
400
The percent of water vapor in the air compared to the percent it could hold at a particular temperature.
What is relative humidity?
400
A cold air mass approaches another cold air mass and traps a warm air mass in between them.
What is an occluded front?
400
The source of energy that heats the surface of the earth.
What is the Sun?
400
The boundary where air masses meet.
What is a front?
400
What is a hurricane?
400
The belts of global winds closest to the equator.
What are Trade Winds?
500
The two things that drive the water cycle.
What are gravity and energy from the sun?
500
A cold air mass pushes into and under a warm air mass. The warm air rises, cools and thunderstorms may occur.
What is a cold front?
500
The heat transfer that causes currents of air around the globe to move heat from the equator to the poles.
What is convection?
500
mP is its abbreviation.
What is maritime polar?
500
Caused when cold air masses move across warm bodies of water.
What is a Lake Effect Snow Storm?
500
Bands of high-speed winds 10 kilometers above the Earth.
What are the Jet Streams?