What is a large amount of air with the same temp and humidity.
100
What kind of storms do cold fronts bring?
What is brief, heavy rain or thunderstorms.
100
What type of rays does a polar climate receive? What type do temperate climates receive? What type do tropical?
What is polar: indirect Temperate: indirect Tropical: Direct
100
How do bodies of water affect climate?
What is they moderate climates of bordering lands.
200
What is a front? How is it made?
What is the area where two (hot and cold) air masses meet.
200
In what ways does earths rotation affect how weather moves?
What is Winds curve in different patterns worldwide because of the earths rotation.
200
The _____ above sea level the _____ colder you get. Height above sea level is called __________.
What is higher, colder, altitude
200
Name the 3 types of clouds?
What is cirrus, cumulus, stratus
200
What is climate?
What is the weather conditions which describe an area over time.
300
What happens to warm air? Is it high or low pressure? What happens to cold air? Is it high or low pressure?
What is Warm air rises, low pressure. Cold air drops and it is high pressure.
300
Which direction does weather move?
What is west to east
300
Describe weather around mountains.
What is rain on the west and dry to the east
300
what are some clues we use to predict weather?
What is temp , clouds, wind speeds, and wind direction
300
2x6+(8x9)+42
What is 126
400
What is a cold front? What is a warm front?
What is Cold Front: when a cold air mass pushes into a warm air mass. The warm air mass rises rapidly. Warm Front: When a warm air mass moves into a cold air mass, it slides up over the cold air.
400
what is pressure?
What is the force pushing in an area.
400
What is an equinox? What is a solstice?
What is Equinox is 2 times during the year, 12 hours of darkness and 12 hours of sunlight. Solstice: twice a year, summer and winter, not a full 12 hours of sunlight or darkness.
400
What is a meteorologists? What are some modern tools they use?
What is a person who studies weather. Satellites, weather balloons, radar, and doppler radar
400
Which famous person of the Southeast region lived in Atlanta and came to Connecticut?
What is MLK jr
500
Why are some winds stronger than others?
What is When there is a big difference in air pressure they get stronger.
500
what is saturated air?
What is air that contains all the water vapor it can hold
500
Name all 6 climate zones
What is Mediterranean, grassland, highland, humid continental, humid subtropical, desert
500
When is hurricane season and who lets us know what a hurricane is coming? What are the signs a hurricane is coming?
What is June through November. National hurricane center. swirling clouds, very low pressure, powerful winds, deep cumulonimbus clouds, and torrential rain.
500
What Name all of the states in the Northeast Region
What is CT, MA, NH, CT, ME, MD, ME, PA, NY, NJ, RI, DE