Clouds
What are clouds made of?
Condensed water particles
The tool used to measure the speed of wind.
What is an anemometer?
Why do winds not flow in a STRAIGHT line and move from west to east?
What is The earth rotates on its axis.
Pressure always flows from ____ to _____ pressure.
What is high to low
Which heats and cools faster: Land or Water?
What is Land
Name 3 types of clouds
What is cumulus, stratus and cirrus
The tool used to measure the amount of water vapor is in the air.
What is a hygrometer?
Constant warm air rising and cool air sinking causes these to occur all around the globe.
What is Convection Cells.
Moderate temperatures are characteristics of what climate zone?
What is the temperate zone.
During the day, the land heats up faster than the water, so a breeze will blow from the sea to the land, called a ____________ __________.
What is a sea breeze?
This is where most of the evaporation occurs on Earth.
What is ocean?
This tool measures wind direction.
What is a wind vane.
The kind of weather we get when warm air masses and cold air masses meet.
What is precipitation.
What is the relationship between temperature and latitude?
The lower the latitude, the warmer the region becomes. The higher the latitude, the colder the area becomes. The relationship is inverse (opposite).
This moderates the East Coast temperatures to be mild year round?
What is the Gulf Stream.
The main factor that determines what type of precipitation will make it to Earth's surface.
What is temperature?
This tool tells us the amount of thermal energy matter contains.
What is a thermometer?
The type of weather that high air pressure brings.
What is fair weather (happy weather)?
The type of weather we will experience if we have 100% humidity.
What is rainy?
This type of air mass will form over the Atlantic Ocean near the equator
What is warm, moist air.
This suffix means rain clouds.
What is nimbus/nimbo.
It is storming outside and with rain and thunder. This tool would have helped me know some lousy weather was on its way.
What is a barometer?
Describe the two reason why wind blows on our Earth. (two reasons for the Coriolis effect)
Unequal heating of the air particles (high pressure vs. low pressure) and the rotation of Earth on its axis.
Describe the difference between the weather and the climate of a place.
Weather is the atmosphere conditions for a short time (like your mood) whereas the climate is the atmosphere conditions over a LONG period of time (like your personality).
Usual heating of the Pacific Ocean that causes warmer temperatures along the west coast in the United States.
What is El Nino.