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Mrs. Adkins Unit 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the three ingredients of weather? | air, water, and heat/temp |
| Weather | the current state of the atmosphere |
| What is the location of weather? | the troposphere |
| Similarities between weather and climate | They both involve weather and atmosphere |
| Difference between weather and climate | Weather is the weather on a day-to-day basis. Meanwhile, climate is the weather over a long period of time. |
| Mass | How much stuff there is |
| Volume | How much space something takes up |
| Density | the amount of mass in a given volume |
| Pressure | the force pushing on an area or surface |
| What is the relationship between altitude and air pressure? | As the altitude increases, pressure decreases |
| Cause of wind | the uneven heating of Earth and its atmosphere. The uneven heating creates convection currents. |
| How are temperature and pressure related to each other and wind? | colder temp=more dense and pressure. warmer temp=less dense and pressure. This relates to convection currents.When it is warm the molecules separate which causes low pressure, when it is cold, they condense and create higher pressure. |
| The Coriolis Effect on wind | winds curve due to the rotation (spinning) of Earth) |
| Fronts | cold, warm, stationary, and occluded. When different air masses collide |
| Cold Fronts | occurs when colder air moves towards warm air; can create storms; represented as a blue line with triangles |
| Warm Fronts | warm air moving towards cold air, and it goes above the cold air; can create light rain/clouds; represented as a red line with half circles |
| Stationary Fronts | occurs when the air masses are not moving. they can produce light wind and precipitation |
| Occluded Fronts | involves three different air masses: one cold, one cool, and one warm |
| Types of precipitation | Rain, snow, sleet, and hail |
| Rain | precipitation that falls in temperatures above freezing (>32 degrees F or 0 degrees C) |
| Snow | precipitation that falls in temperatures cold enough (<32 degrees F or 0 degrees C) to go from water vapor to solids |
| Sleet | when raindrops pass through freezing air near the Earth's surface |
| Cumulonimbus Clouds | as warm air is forced upward rapidly, these clouds are created. These are the places where thunderstorms and tornadoes form. |
| What forms when warm, ocean air evaporates and produces a spinning cloud with an eye? | What forms when warm, ocean air evaporates and produces a spinning cloud with an eye? |
| How are hurricanes and tornadoes similar? | How are hurricanes and tornadoes similar? |
| The properties of air | air has mass, and because it has mass it has density |
| Relationship between wind and air pressure | Wind moves from high pressure to low pressure |
| Water cycle | Sun, evaporation, condensation(clouds), precipitation, runoff, accumulation |
| What would a continental, polar air mass contain? | dry, cold air |
| What would a maritime tropical air mass contain? | humid, warm air |
| Why do we have a sea breeze? | During the day, the sun heats the earth unevenly....the sand is warmer than the water. Air moves from the water (high pressure) to the sand (lower pressure) |
| Why do we have global winds? | The sun always heats the equator more directly than the poles. Equator is hot and poles are cold. This difference in air temperatures creates differences in air pressures, creating winds. |
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