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ES Chapter 12 Vocab
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| short term variations in atmosphere phenomena that interact and affect the environment and life on earth. | Weather |
| the long term average of variation in weather for a particular are | Climate |
| large volume of air that has the characteristics of the area over which it forms | Air Mass |
| area over which an air mass forms | Source Region |
| effect of a rotating body that influences the motion of any object or fluid on earth air moving north or south from the equator appears to move right or left. | Coriolis Effect |
| global wind systems that lie between latitudes 60 degrees N and 60 degrees S and the poles is characterized by cold air | Polar Easterlies |
| global win system that lies between 30 degrees and 60 degrees N and south latitudes where surface air moves toward the poles in an easterly direction | Prevailing Westerlies |
| two global wind systems that flow between 30 degrees north and south latitudes where air sinks warms and returns to the equator in a westerly direction | Trade Winds |
| narrow wind band that occurs above large temperature contrasts and can flow as fast as 185 km/h | Jet Stream |
| boundary between two air masses of differing densities can be cold warm stationary or occluded and can stretch over large areas of earths surface | Front |
| Instrument used to measure temperature using either the Faherenheit or Celsius scale | Thermometer |
| instrument used to measure air pressure | Barometer |
| weather instrument used to measure wind speed | Anemometer |
| weather instrument used to measure humidity | Hygrometer |
| ballonborne weather instrument whose sensors measure air pressure humidity temperature wind speed and wind direction of the upper atmosphere | Radiosonde |
| change in the wave frequency that occurs due to the relative motion of the wave as it moves toward or away from an observer | Doppler effect |
| record of weather data for a specific time using meteorological symbols | Station model |
| line on weather map connecting areas of equal pressure | Isobar |
| line on a weather map connecting areas of equal temperature | Isotherm |
| weather forecast that uses numerical data to predict how atmospheric variables change over time | Digital forecast |
| weather forecast that compares current weather patterns to patterns that occurred in the past | Analog forecast |
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