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What's Meteorology?
Meteors
Thermal Redistribution
Imbalanced Heating
Air Masses
100
What's the Greek root word of Meteorology and what does it mean?
What is "meteoros" which means "high in the air"
100
What type of meteor is rain
What is a hydrometeor
100
What can weather range from?
What are clear skies to severe thunderstorms
100
What makes winter tempretures warmer?
What is the rotation of Earth's axis
100
What's an air mass?
What is a large volume of air that has the same characteristics, such as humidity and tempreture, as it's source region.
200
What's the definition of weather?
What is the short term variations in atmospheric phenomema that interact and affect the enviorment and life on Earth
200
What type of meteor is lightning?
What is an electrometeor
200
What on Earth maintain the same average tempretures year round?
What are areas
200
What also takes part in Earth's tempreture changes?
What is the fact that Earth is a spheric ball
200
What is a source region?
What is the area over which air masses form.
300
What's the definiton of climate?
What is the long term average of variation in weather for a particular area.
300
What type of meteor is dust?
What is a lithometeor
300
What helps weather tempretures stay constant?
What is Earth's water and air
300
What's heat range of tempreture due to?
What is the amount of solar radiation from the equator.
300
What air masses influence weather in the continental United States?
What are the Tropical and Polar air masses.
400
How long can weather variation patterns take place?
What is minuites, hours, years, etc.
400
What type of meteor is sleet?
What is a hydrometeor
400
What does the Earth's constant movement do to the thermal energy?
What is redistribution
400
Is solar radiation equal or unequal?
What is unequal.
400
What type of weather do Tropical air masses bring to the United States in the summer?
What is hot, humid, weather.
500
Over how many years do meteorologists use weather gathering data?
What is over 30 years
500
What type of meteor is haze?
What is a lithometeor.
500
What is part of Earth's large scale thermal energy redistribution?
What is thunderstorms
500
What happens to the heat if it is in a greater area?
What is smaller thermal coverage
500
Where are air masses?
What is always in constant movement.