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Heat Transfer
Winds
Storms
Air Masses/Fronts
Wild Card
100
Heat from the sun reaches you by
radiation
100
Winds are caused by differences in
air pressure
100
Large clouds that often produce thunderstorms are called
cumulonimbus clouds
100
On weather maps, a line with half circles indicates which type of front?
warm front
100
Scientists who study weather and try to predict it are called
meteorologists
200
The process by which gases hold heat in the atmosphere is called the
greenhouse effect
200
Cool air tends to be (more/less) dense and flow (under/above) warm air
more...under
200
A funnel-shaped cloud that touches Earth’s surface is called a
tornado
200
Cold, dry air affecting the northern United States in winter often comes from which type of air mass?
Continental polar
200
Earth’s rotation makes global winds curve. This is called the
Coriolis effect
300
Most of Earth’s incoming ultraviolet radiation is absorbed by
ozone
300
Convection takes place because cold air is (less/more) dense than warm air
cold air is more dense than warm air.
300
Hurricanes typically form over
warm ocean water
300
When a rapidly moving cold air mass overtakes a slow-moving warm air mass, the result is which type of front?
cold front
300
When a warm air mass overtakes a cold air mass, it forms which type of front?
warm
400
Heat transfer between two substances that are in contact is called
conduction
400
Wind speed is measured by a(n)
anemometer
400
If people are asked to evacuate during a hurricane watch, they are being asked to
leave the area temporarily
400
When a warm air mass and a cold air mass meet and neither can move the other, the result is which type of front?
stationary
400
Global winds generally
blow from specific directions over long distances.
500
Most of the heating of the troposphere comes from
convection
500
Local winds differ from global winds because they
are caused by unequal heating within a small area.
500
A “dome” of water that sweeps across the coast where a hurricane lands is called a(n)
storm surge
500
What kind of weather would a continental tropical air mass that formed over northern Mexico bring to the southwestern United States?
warm/hot and dry
500
Land breezes occur because
land cools off faster than water.