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Air in motion is called this.
What is wind?
100
A boundary where two air masses meet.
What is a front?
100
The amount of force pushing down on the Earth's surface is called this.
What is air pressure?
100
Low clouds that look like a blanket of gray across the sky.
What are stratus clouds?
100
The level of moisture in the air.
What is humidity?
200
Prevailing Westerlies
What are the winds that impacts New Jersey's (our) weather?
200
The blue H on a map with a line with triangles pointing in the direction of movement represents this.
What is a high pressure system?
200
This instrument measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
200
Clouds form here.
What is the troposphere?
200
These radio waves bounce off of water in the atmosphere to tell the level of moisture for meteorologists.
What is radar?
300
A wind vane
What tells the direction of the wind?
300
The red L on a map with a red line of semicircles pointing in the direction of movement denotes this
What is a low pressure system?
300
When cold air falls and warm air rises, this is created.
What is a convection cell?
300
Light and wispy clouds high in the sky that look like a horse's tail.
What are cirrus clouds?
300
A hygrometer
What measures the humidity level in the air?
400
An anemometer
What measures the speed of wind?
400
An alternating red and blue line with both red circles and blue triangles shows this on a weather map.
What is a stationary front?
400
This is a two-part question: 1) The way winds move in a high pressure system. 2) The way winds move in a low pressure system.
1) What is a clockwise flow? 2) What is a counterclockwise flow?
400
Tall, puffy clouds either low or high in the sky that can look like cauliflower.
What are cumulus clouds?
400
The weather in a given area on a given day versus the weather over time in a given area.
What is the difference between weather and climate?
500
Trade Winds, Prevailing Westerlies, Polar Easterlies are known as these.
What are the three major types of wind on the planet?
500
A line on a weather map that connects points having the same atmospheric pressure at the same time
What is an isobar?
500
Low pressure days usually bring warmer and more humid conditions; however, high pressure days usually bring drier, clear conditions.
How does air pressure affect the weather?
500
These clouds produce rain storms, hail, sleet, and in some cases, tornadoes.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
500
Air pressure, moisture level, winds and heat energy are the four factors known to do this.
What influences, makes or creates weather?