What causes weather?
Weather Fronts
Pressure Systems
Clouds and Precipitation
Severe Weather
100
All weather can be traced to the effect of the Sun's energy on this....
What is the atmosphere?
100
When two air masses collide.
What is a front?
100
A sea breeze is when cooler ocean air flows towards the land during the __________________.
What is daytime?
100
A puffy cloud that signals fair weather.
What is a cumulus cloud?
100
A funnel-shaped cloud that reaches down from a storm cloud to touch the Earth’s surface.
What is a tornado?
200
Between warm air and cold air, I am the one that is lighter.
What is warm air?
200
When cold air is pushing warm air out of the way.
What is a cold front?
200
This type of breeze blows from the land towards the water during the night.
What is land breeze?
200
A low, gray, layered cloud.
What is a stratus cloud?
200
The most common type of severe weather.
What is a thunderstorm?
300
This is created when high pressure areas move into low pressure areas.
What is wind?
300
This front brings warm and humid weather to an area.
What is a warm front?
300
Cloudy, stormy skies with heavy winds describes this type of pressure system.
What is a low-pressure system?
300
Water changing to gas is called....
What is evaporation?
300
A period of time when an area experiences below-normal precipitation, leading to a shortage of water supply.
What is a drought?
400
When fluids, like air and water, transfer heat through a rising and falling pattern
What is a convection current?
400
Memphis is experiencing a stationary front. The weather forecast most likely includes...
What is a few days of rain and wind?
400
The pressure system you hope for if you plan to go camping outdoors.
What is a high-pressure system?
400
When water vapor rises into the atmosphere, it cools. The water vapor then changes back into tiny water drops. This process is called
What is condensation?
400
Hurricanes form in tropical waters near the equator. They can not form in higher latitudes because the water is too _______.
What is cold?
500
Wind in the Northern Hemisphere tends to curve to the right. Wind in the Southern Hemisphere tends to curve to the left.
What is the Coriolis effect?
500
You are interested in traveling to either Chicago or Denver. You decide to go to the city that has the LOWEST LOW temperature.
What is Denver?
500
The Northwest region is experiencing this type of weather.
What is sunny, clear skies with light winds?
500
Starting with evaporation, warm moist air rises through the atmosphere, and the air cools. Then, condensation occurs. All of these steps describe how ____________ form.
What is a cloud?
500
The five types of precipitation.
What is rain, snow, hail, sleet, and freezing rain? (in any order)