Factors 1
A patch of land that has been forced to become a desert because mountain ranges blocked all plant-growing, rainy weather
What is a Rain Shadow
Energy from the sun.
What is solar energy?
An instrument used to measure precipitation.
What is a rain gauge?
Composed of ice crystals, these clouds are whitish and hair-like. There are the high, wispy clouds to first appear in advance of a low pressure area such as a mid-latitude storm system or a tropical system such as a hurricane.
What is cirro-form?
Tiny particles in the air essential for cloud droplets to form
What are nuclei?
the measure of hotness or coldness expressed in terms of any of several scales, including Fahrenheit and Celsius.
What is temperature?
a measure of the amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
an instrument used to measure the direction of the wind
What is a weather vane?
Generally detached clouds, they look like white fluffy cotton balls. They show vertical motion or thermal uplift of air taking place in the atmosphere. They are usually dense in appearance with sharp outlines. The base of cumulus clouds are generally flat and occurs at the altitude where the moisture in rising air condenses.
What is cumulo-form?
the thin layer of gases surrounding the earth or another planet.
What is the atmosphere?
A force that is the result of the weight of a column of air pushing down on an area.
How quickly moving air is travelling and the direction from which it originates
What is wind speed and direction?
An instrument that measures atmospheric pressure
What is a barometer?
From the Latin word for 'layer' these clouds are usually broad and fairly wide spread appearing like a blanket. They result from non-convective rising air and tend to occur along and to the north of warm fronts. The edges of strato-form clouds are diffuse.
What is strato-form?
a visible mass of condensed water vapor floating in the atmosphere, typically high above the ground.
What are clouds?
The continuous movement of water on, above, and below the surface of the Earth.
What is the water cycle?
A boundary that forms when air masses meet that have different temperature, pressure, and humidity conditions.
An instrument used to measure wind speed
this cloud is the the Latin word for rain. The vast majority of precipitation occurs from these clouds and therefore these clouds have the greatest vertical height.
distance north or south of the Equator, measured in degrees
What is latitude?
the difference in elevation between the highest and lowest parts of an area
What is relief?
A description of surface features of land.
What is topography?
An instrument used to measure relative humidity
What is a Psychrometer?
a high-speed high-altitude airstream blowing from west to east near the top of the troposphere
What is the jet stream?