Convection Currents
The weather associated with high pressure systems.
What is good, happy, clear skies, calm winds?
This is denoted by alternating blue triangles and red semi circles.
What is a stationary front?
The two forces that drive the water cycle.
What are gravity and the sun?
Caused by periods with little to no rainfall.
What is drought?
Measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
This is the flow of heat in the mantle, atmosphere and oceans.
Purple triangles alternating with purple semi circles.
What is an occluded front?
Water stored in cracks between rocks and soil.
What is groundwater?
A spinning funnel cloud causing much destruction.
What is a tornado?
Measures atmospheric pressure.
What is a barometer?
The driving force of all currents in the oceans and atmosphere.
What is unequal heating of the Earth?
Locations on a map with cloudy skies and rainy weather will have this near them.
What is low pressure?
The process that changes water vapor into liquid water.
What is condensation?
Vast amounts of cold precipitation in short time that reduces visiblity.
What is a blizzard?
An air mass that brings very warm moist air.
What is maritime equatorial?
The conditions that cause wind.
What is cool air moving in to replace warm air?
This brings higher temperatures with moist air.
What is a warm front?
The three processes caused by gravity.
What are runoff, infiltration, and precipitation?
One effect of an underwater earthquake.
What is a Tsunami?
The reason air rises.
What are warmer and less dense?
Cool ocean air blowing towards land.
What is a sea breeze?
These conditions cause a stationary front.
What are warm and cold air masses of equal strength and pressure?
The four processes of water moving from a liquid state to gas in the atmosphere.
What are transpiration, evapotranspiration, evaporation, and sublimation?
Two effects of hurricanes.
What are violent winds, storm surge, and flooding?
An air mass formed over land in the south west states and Mexico.
What is continental tropical?