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Weather Study Guide
1.
What causes the difference in air
pressure on Earth?
2. Which heats up and cools off faster land
or water?
3. Create the following diagrams for land
and sea breeze. Make sure to include the
following: High pressure area, Low
pressure area, warm air rising, cold air
sinking, arrows for the direction of the
wind and moon.
Land Breeze
Sea Breeze
4. How is weather different from climate?
5. The boundary between air masses of
different densities and usually different
temperatures. This is where weather
occurs!
6. Diagram and explain how a cold front
forms. Include the weather that results
from the front and the symbol.
7. Diagram and explain how a warm front
forms. Include the weather that results
from the front and the symbol.
8. Diagram and explain how an occluded
front forms. Include the weather that
results from the front and the symbol.
9. Diagram and explain how a stationary
front forms. Include the weather that
results from the front and the symbol.
10. What is the greenhouse effect?
11. What is the relationship between
temperature and altitude? What is the
relationship between air pressure and
altitude?
12. Identify the type of weather front
shown in the diagram to the right. What
type of weather can be expected? Explain
13. What is the Jet Stream? How can this
phenomenon affect air travel?
14. What is the underlying reason for
major systems such as hurricanes,
tornadoes, and thunderstorms?
15. List 4 types of weather measuring
instruments. Describe what they are used
to measure.
A.
B.
C.
D.
16. Explain the 4 different types of clouds
and the weather you would expect to see
as a result.
A.
B.
C.
D.
18. A hurricane begins as a group of
______________ moving over tropical
ocean waters.
19. A hurricane gets it energy from the
____________ of water vapor.
20. Hurricanes continue to grow as long
as it is over its source of __________,
_________ air.
21. When the hurricane moves into
__________ waters or over __________,
it begins to die because it has lost its
source of energy.
22. __________ a core of warm, relatively
calm air with low pressure and light winds
23. Thunderstorms, Tornados, and
Hurricanes form at ….