It's a good thing we don't live in this part of the country where warm air from the south collides with cold air from the north to create storms.
What is Tornado Alley?
100
cold, dry air mass
What is continental polar?
100
The most common type of gas in the air we breathe.
What is nitrogen?
100
The layer where weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
100
The source of winds on our planet.
What is uneven heating of the earth by the sun?
200
The meteorologist advised us to take shelter from a tornado. This is where I am going to hide.
What is in the basement, below ground, someplace low.
200
This air mass formed over Mexico and moved through the southern United States.
What is continental tropical?
200
The force of air pushing down on us.
What is air pressure?
200
Was that a shooting star? Yup. A meteor burning up in this layer of the atmosphere.
What is the mesosphere?
200
Because of this, winds moving from north to south in the northern hemisphere appear to turn right.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
300
Do you hear about the most dangerous part of the hurricane? Wow, I didn't expect that.
What is a storm surge?
300
Ah, an island vacation, palm trees, sandy beaches and sun. Brought to you by this type of air mass.
What is maritime tropical?
300
Air always moves from this, with symbol H, toward this with the symbol L.
What is from high pressure to low pressure?
300
All of those charged ions in this layer of the atmosphere put on a beautiful show at night when we see the auroras.
What is the ionosphere?
300
This type of wind moves from land to sea at night because of differences in ___ __________ and ________________.
What is a land breeze?
400
The hurricane will definitely make landfall and pass through my town in the next 24 hours. We know this because there is a ____________ ______________.
What is a hurricane warning?
400
This huge mass of air just dipped down into the United States from Canada. It sure will be cold tonight.
What is continental polar?
400
Dane noticed it was more difficult to breathe as he gained altitude. This was because the _____________ of air decreased.
What is density?
400
We know there is 'good' ozone and 'bad' ozone. I am glad this layer has good ozone.
What is the stratosphere?
400
These wind belts move winds and weather around Earth.
What are global winds?
500
I heard thunder. There is danger from this electrical charge.
What is lightning?
500
What's that? An air mass that formed over the Gulf of Mexico?
What is maritime tropical?
500
It's so hot and sticky outside. The ________________ must be over 80%!
What is humidity?
500
The atmosphere does these things for the earth that allows life to exist.
What is keeps in heat and moisture?
500
When warm air moves toward a mass of cold air and rises over it, we call this a (n)