Air Mass
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Weather
Heating of the Earth
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A large body of air with similar temperature and moisture. These occur when air sits in one place for a long period of time.
An Airmass
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What is it called where two air masses meet?
A front
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What tool measures air pressure?
A barometer.
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The sun heats the earth through the process of
What is solar radiation
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rain, sleet, snow, and hail are examples of?
What is precipitation.
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Where could we go to find a maritime tropical air mass?
The Caribbean, Bahamas, Florida....
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A curved line with red half circles on it is the symbol for a ?
A warm front
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the current conditions outside at a particular place and time is known as _______________
What is Weather
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What type of surfaces absorb more heat? Dark surfaces or light colored surfaces? Why?
What is dark surfaces because they absorb the light which is converted heat and light colored surfaces reflect more light
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What is more dense Salt water or freshwater?
Cold water or warm water?
What is salt water and cold water.
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Where could we go to find a continental tropical airmass?
The desert
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The weather forecast indicates that the weather will be turning cold very quickly with the chance of a thunderstorm. What type of front would cause this?
A cold front.
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What tool is used to measure the amount of precipitation?
What is the rain gauge
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What substance absorbs heat faster water or sand?
What is sand
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What causes hurricanes to spin clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern hemisphere?
What is The Coriolis Effect
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What do the words maritime, continental, polar, and tropical mean?
wet (humid), dry, cold, and warm.
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What are the 4 different types of air fronts?
What is the cold front, warm front, occluded front, and the stationary front.
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What tool is used to measure wind speed?
An Anemometer
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What substance loses heat more slowly sand or water? Why?
What is water because water has a higher specific heat which means it holds on to heat which it absorbs well.
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What is a density current?
What is a current that forms from under the surface of the ocean from cold water sinking and warm water rising
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What charateristics do air masses take based on the surfaces they form over?
What is temperature and humidity
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A warm air mass meets and rises above a cold air mass. What type of front would this create?
A warm front.
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What is the difference between weather and climate.
Weather is the conditions of what if going on at a certain point in time. Climate is the average weather conditions over a long period of time.
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Water and air that is heated moves in a circular pattern where the hot substance rises and the colder substance sinks. This is known as _____________
What is a convection current
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Which direction does weather move across the United States (in general)?
What is west to east