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Under Pressure
This Blows
Ocean Currents
Air Masses & Fronts
Terminology
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The difference in air pressure is caused by the _________ heating of Earth's surface.
What is unequal?
100
The horizontal movement of air.
What is wind?
100
Surface currents are mainly caused by.
What is wind?
100
The boundary that forms between air masses.
What is a front?
100
Lines drawn on a weather map connecting areas of equal temperature.
What is isotherms?
200
Areas of equal pressure are shown on a weather map using these.
What is isobars?
200
Wind is always named for the direction it comes _____.
What is from?
200
The warm surface current that makes the climate of Europe milder.
What is Gulf Stream?
200
The air in a maritime polar air mass.
What is wet and cold?
200
The curved path wind takes because of Earth's rotation.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
300
The greater the difference in air pressure the ________ the wind.
What is stronger?
300
Air typically moves from this pressure system toward this pressure system.
What is high to low?
300
Depending on where they form, surface currents can be either _____ or _____.
What is warm or cold?
300
The weather can be severe when this type of front wins the battle.
What is cold front?
300
A large pocket of air that has the same characteristics throughout it.
What is an air mass?
400
The layer of Earth's atmosphere where all weather takes place.
What is the troposphere?
400
The name of fast flowing, narrow air current found about 10 km above Earth's surface and greatly affects weather patterns.
What is jet stream?
400
The difference in density and temperature causes this type of current to form.
What is deep ocean current?
400
The boundary between two air masses that collide, but don't move.
What is a stationary front?
400
Another term for air pressure.
What is barometric pressure or atmospheric pressure?
500
The measure of force with which air particles push on matter.
What is air pressure?
500
Convection currents are created when this happens in the air.
What is warm air rises and cold air sinks?
500
The large convection current that carries ocean water throughout all the world's oceans.
What is global conveyor belt?
500
The two factors that describe the air in an air mass.
What is temperature and moisture?
500
The term that refers to the amount of energy it takes to raise the temperature one degree.
What is heat capacity?