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Name:__________________________________________________________________Date:________Pd:_____ 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 ….