What is weather?
Describes the conditions in the atmosphere at a given place for a short period of time
What causes weather?
Uneven heating of the earth by the Sun's rays
In what layer of the atmosphere dos most weather occur?
Troposphere
What is Air Temperature?
The amount pf heat energy in the atmosphere at a place
What is Air Pressure?
The amount of force exerted by the air hitting a given surface area
What is Humidity?
The amount of water vapor in the air
What is Wind Speed?
The rate at which wind moves in mph or knots
What is Wind Direction?
The direction that the wind blows from
What is Precipitation?
Falling moisture from the clouds(Rain, sleet, snow, and hail)
What instrument would you the to measure the wind speed
Anemometer
What instrument would you use to measure wind direction?
Wind Vane
What instrument would you use to measure air temperature?
Thermometer
What are the units for air pressure?
Millibars
What are 4 times of precipitation?
Rain, sleet, snow, and hail
What does wind direction describe?
It describes what way the wind is blowing from
What instrument do you use to measure air pressure?
Barometer
What instrument do you use to measure humidity?
Hygrometer
What kind of pressure is hot air?
Low pressure
What kind of pressure in cold air?
High pressure
Does cold air sink or float?
Sink
Does hot air sink or float?
Float
What causes wind?
Differences in air pressure
The wind is blowing to the North. What is the wind direction?
South
Wind spins in what direction in the Northern Hemisphere?
The right
What is the curving of the wind in the Northern Hemisphere known as?
Coriolis Effect
What is the dew point?
the temperature at which water vapor condenses of of the air because the air is saturated
What causes a cloud to form?
When water vapor condenses on tiny particles of smoke, salt, and other condensation
What type of weather typically comes with dark clouds?
Thunderstorms
What type of weather typically comes with light, white clouds?
Fair, sunny weather
How does precipitation occur?
When the water in the clouds becomes to heavy the moisture falls to the ground
List four kinds of precipitation.
Rain, snow, sleet, and hail
What is a field map?
A region of space that has a measure quantity or value at every point
What is an isoline?
Lines of equal air pressure
What is an isotherm?
Lines of equal temperature
An air mass that forms over water would be dry or moist?
Moist
An air mass that forms over land would be dry or moist?
Dry
What is an air mass? Provide 5 examples.
Air with generally uniform characteristics. Arctic, Polar, Tropical, Maritime tropical, continental Arctic
what is Source Region?
The surface over which an air mass forms
What is a Front?
The boundary on the ground between two air masses
What happens to the temperature as cold front passes?
It gets colder
What type of precipitation do you get from a warm front?
Rain
Why does the warm air rise up and over the cold air at a cold front?
Warm is rises because it is lighter so it goes over the cooler, heavier air
How do winds blow around a hurricane?
Clockwise
What fuels a hurricane and gives it its power?
Warm water
To sty safe what should you do if a hurricane comes to Long Island? Go to the beach or move to higher ground?
Move to higher ground
What is a Cyclone?
any inward and counterclockwise air circulation around a low pressure center
What is the relationship between temperature and latitude?
The further north you go, the colder it is
What is weather?
Describes the conditions in the atmosphere at a given place for a short period of time
What causes weather?
Uneven heating of the earth by the Sun's rays
In what layer of the atmosphere dos most weather occur?
Troposphere
What is Air Temperature?
The amount pf heat energy in the atmosphere at a place
What is Air Pressure?
The amount of force exerted by the air hitting a given surface area
What is Humidity?
The amount of water vapor in the air
What is Wind Speed?
The rate at which wind moves in mph or knots
What is Wind Direction?
The direction that the wind blows from
What is Precipitation?
Falling moisture from the clouds(Rain, sleet, snow, and hail)
What instrument would you the to measure the wind speed
Anemometer
What instrument would you use to measure wind direction?
Wind Vane
What instrument would you use to measure air temperature?
Thermometer
What are the units for air pressure?
Millibars
What are 4 times of precipitation?
Rain, sleet, snow, and hail
What does wind direction describe?
It describes what way the wind is blowing from
What instrument do you use to measure air pressure?
Barometer
What instrument do you use to measure humidity?
Hygrometer
What kind of pressure is hot air?
Low pressure
What kind of pressure in cold air?
High pressure
Does cold air sink or float?
Sink
Does hot air sink or float?
Float
What causes wind?
Differences in air pressure
The wind is blowing to the North. What is the wind direction?
South
Wind spins in what direction in the Northern Hemisphere?
The right
What is the curving of the wind in the Northern Hemisphere known as?
Coriolis Effect
What is the dew point?
the temperature at which water vapor condenses of of the air because the air is saturated
What causes a cloud to form?
When water vapor condenses on tiny particles of smoke, salt, and other condensation
What type of weather typically comes with dark clouds?
Thunderstorms
What type of weather typically comes with light, white clouds?
Fair, sunny weather
How does precipitation occur?
When the water in the clouds becomes to heavy the moisture falls to the ground
List four kinds of precipitation.
Rain, snow, sleet, and hail
What is a field map?
A region of space that has a measure quantity or value at every point
What is an isoline?
Lines of equal air pressure
What is an isotherm?
Lines of equal temperature
An air mass that forms over water would be dry or moist?
Moist
An air mass that forms over land would be dry or moist?
Dry
What is an air mass? Provide 5 examples.
Air with generally uniform characteristics. Arctic, Polar, Tropical, Maritime tropical, continental Arctic
what is Source Region?
The surface over which an air mass forms
What is a Front?
The boundary on the ground between two air masses
What happens to the temperature as cold front passes?
It gets colder
What type of precipitation do you get from a warm front?
Rain
Why does the warm air rise up and over the cold air at a cold front?
Warm is rises because it is lighter so it goes over the cooler, heavier air
How do winds blow around a hurricane?
Clockwise
What fuels a hurricane and gives it its power?
Warm water
To sty safe what should you do if a hurricane comes to Long Island? Go to the beach or move to higher ground?
Move to higher ground
What is a Cyclone?
any inward and counterclockwise air circulation around a low pressure center
What is the relationship between temperature and latitude?
The further north you go, the colder it is