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