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Air Mass and pressure
Fronts and the atmosphere
Weather and equipment
Wind, Hurricanes and pollution
100
This process of the water cycle forms clouds?
What is condensation?
100
A large body of air with similar temperature and moisture. (Air mass or pressure)
What is an air mass?
100
Where two air masses meet is called this.
What is a front?
100
This scientific tool measures temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100
This dome of water sweeps across the coast and may occur when a hurricane comes ashore. (choose from hurricane, jet stream, storm surge, polar easterly)
What is a storm surge?
200
This powers the water cycle.
What is the sun?
200
Air masses are named after the type of location they form. Maritime tropical air mass form over this type of location.
What is over water and near the equator?
200
On a weather map, a curved line with red half circles on it is the symbol for this type of front.
What is a warm front?
200
The condition of the atmosphere at a particular place and time.
What is the weather?
200
Where in the United States do most tornadoes occur?
What is the Midwest of the United States (Tornado Alley) ?
300
Rain, sleet, snow, and hail are examples this.
What is precipitation?
300
Air masses are named after the type of location they form. Where does a continental tropical airmass form?
What is over land and near the equator?
300
These are the four MAIN layers in our atmosphere in order from Earth to space.
(We are not listing 5 or 6 with this question -so we are not including ionoshere (the lower part of the thermosphere) or exosphere (The outer layer of the thermosphere)
What is troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere?
300
This scientific tool is used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
300
When is hurricane season? (2 seasons)
What is the Fall and late Summer?
400
The two most abundant gases in the atmosphere.
What are nitrogen and oxygen?
400
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
a. The term maritime means water or land? continental means water or land? tropical means warm or cold? polar means warm or cold?
B. Using the above information, describe a continental tropical (cT) airmass.
1. What is water, land, warm, cold?
2. Dry and warm (desert)
400
This gas found as a layer in the stratosphere absorbs harmful ultraviolet radiation.
What is ozone?
400
This scientific tool is used to show wind direction.
What is a weather vane? (Or what is a wind vane?)
400
Most air pollution come from this.
What is the burning fossil fuels?
500
The layer of gases that surrounds the earth.
What is the atmosphere?
500
As elevation increases in the troposphere, this happens to temperature and air pressure. (Increases, decreases, or stays the same.)
What is temperature decreases and air pressure decreases?
500
DAILY TRIPLE!
This type of current is the movement of a fluid*, caused by differences in temperature, that transfers heat from one part of the fluid to another due to changes in temperature that occurs in the troposphere. (A current with the same name is also found in Earth's mantle.)
(the correct response is a 2 word term.)
(________ currents)
* a fluid flows and can be liquid or gas
What are convection currents?
500
This is a rotating funnel-shaped cloud that typically lasts 5-10 minutes.
What is a tornado?
500
This stream is described as: bands of high-speed winds about 10 kilometers above Earth's surface. Above North America they run from west to east.
What are jet streams?