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Weather and Climate
Storms**
Predicting
Weather
Ocean
Currents
Winds
Air
Masses
Fronts
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Storms for 100
• Spark, or electrical discharge, that jumps
between clouds, or clouds and ground
• Answer: Lightening
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Storms for 200
• Happens when cold, dry air that moves
across warm lake water becomes more
humid
• Answer: Lake effect snow
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Storms for 300
• Tropical cyclone with winds of 119 km/hr
or higher
• Answer: Hurricane
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Storms for 400
• Caused by weather patterns in the Great
Plains
• Answer: Tornado Alley
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Storms for 500
• Over warm ocean water as a low
pressure area
• Answer: Hurricanes begin…
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Predicting Weather for 100
• Condition of atmosphere at a particular
time and place; changes every day
• Answer: Weather
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Predicting Weather for 200
• Lines joining places that have the same
temperature
• Answer: Isotherms
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Predicting Weather for 300
• Lines join places on the map with the
same air pressure
• Answer: Isobars
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Predicting Weather for 400
• Maps, charts, and computers
• Answer: Meteorologists use…
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Predicting Weather for 500
• Sends out radio waves that bounce off
particles in the air
• Answer: Doppler transmitter
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Ocean Currents for 100
• Streams of water within the oceans that
move in regular patterns
• Answer: Ocean Currents
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Ocean Currents for 200
• Best known warm water current
• Answer: Gulf Stream
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Ocean Currents for 300
• Ocean effect on temperature…
• Answer: Greatly moderate or make less
extreme
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Ocean Currents for 400
• Cool current that flows southward
• Answer: California current
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Ocean Currents for 500
• Gulf stream, after it crosses the North
Atlantic; brings mild, humid air
• Answer: North Atlantic Drift
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Winds for 100
• The directional winds that blow in a
region
• Answer: Prevailing Winds
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Winds for 200
• The side of the mountain where the wind
hits, causes rain or snow to fall
• Answer: Windward
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Winds for 300
• Side of the mountain that is downwind,
in a rain shadow, so little precipitation
falls there
• Answer: Leeward
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Winds for 400
• Prevailing winds, presence of mountains,
and seasonal winds
• Answer: Main factors that affect
precipitation
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Winds for 500
• Winds that blow inland from oceans or
large lakes…
• Answer: …carry more water vapor
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Air Masses for 100
• Huge body of air that has similar
temperature, humidity, and air pressure
at any given height
• Answer: Air mass
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Air Masses for 200
• Hot, dry air masses, common in
southwest
• Answer: Continental tropical
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Air Masses for 300
• Cool, humid air masses: fog, rain, cool
temperatures
• Answer: Maritime Polar
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Air Masses for 400
• Continental polar + Maritime tropical =
• Answer: Storms
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Air Masses for 500
• Commonly move air masses in the US
• Answer: Prevailing westerlies & Jet
Streams
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Fronts for 100
• The boundary where air masses meet
• Answer: Front
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Fronts for 200
• Fast-moving cold air overtakes a warm
air mass; cause abrupt weather changes
• Answer: Cold Front
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Fronts for 300
• A warm air mass overtakes a slow-
moving cold air mass; causes rainy or
cloudy weather for several days, then
warm, humid weather
• Answer: Warm front
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Fronts for 400
• Cold and warm air meet, but neither
move the other; can cause many days of
clouds and precipitation
• Answer: Stationary Front
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Fronts for 500
• Warm air mass is caught between two
cooler air masses; cause cooler air,
clouds and rain or snow.
• Answer: Occluded Front
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…Cats and Dogs for 100
• Average, year-after-year conditions of
temperature, precipitation, winds and
clouds in an area
• Answer: Climate
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…Cats and Dogs for 200
• In the case of mountains…
• Answer: Altitude is more important than
latitude
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…Cats and Dogs for 300
• Latitude, altitude, distance from water,
and ocean currents
• Answer: Main factors that influence
temperature
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…Cats and Dogs for 400
• Climate with More extreme: cold winters
and warm or hot summers
• Answer: Continental Climate
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…Cats and Dogs for 500
• Have mild winters and cool summers
• Answer: Marine Climate
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Final Jeopardy!
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