43 Questions
What is probability of precipitation?
The likelihood of rain on a given day
True or false: The probability of precipitation refers to the likelihood of snowfall in an area.
False
True or false: Probability of precipitation is the likelihood of sunshine at any point in an area.
False
What is the probability of precipitation?
The likelihood of rain at any point in the area on a given day
True or false: Weather patterns are influenced by the Sun's heat and water.
True
What are the two main factors that determine weather?
Heat from the sun and water
What are the two factors that weather depends on?
Heat from the sun and water
True or false: Weather is only affected by heat from the Sun.
False
What causes weather to change over time?
Movement of air masses
True or false: Air masses flow from low pressure to high pressure.
False
True or false: Air masses move from areas of low pressure to high pressure.
False
What causes weather to change over time?
The movement of air masses
What can cause sudden changes in weather?
Collisions between different air masses
What can sudden changes in weather result from?
Collisions between different air masses
True or false: Pressure is measured with a thermometer.
False
True or false: Barometers are used to measure temperature.
False
How is pressure measured?
With a barometer
What is measured with a barometer?
Pressure
True or false: Different air masses bring different types of weather.
True
True or false: Air masses always bring the same type of weather regardless of their source.
False
What does a rising barometer indicate?
High pressure
What are the four regions that meteorologists use to identify air masses?
Polar, tropical, continental, and maritime
True or false: Polar air masses are warm and tropical air masses are cold.
False
True or false: Polar air masses are warm.
False
True or false: Continental air masses form over water.
False
What is a cold front?
A boundary between air masses that causes rapid precipitation and thunderstorms
What brings different types of weather depending on their source?
Air masses
True or false: Continental air masses form over water and maritime air masses form over land.
False
True or false: Fronts are borders between air masses.
True
True or false: Fronts are boundaries between air masses.
True
How do meteorologists identify air masses?
By the regions from which they originate
What are fronts?
Boundaries between air masses
True or false: Warm fronts cause rapid precipitation and thunderstorms.
False
True or false: Cold fronts bring about rapid precipitation and thunderstorms.
True
True or false: Warm fronts result in increased temperature and layered clouds.
True
Where do cold fronts form?
Where a cold air mass moves under a warm air mass
True or false: Cold fronts bring layered clouds and increased temperature.
False
True or false: Pressure is a factor in determining the type of weather in an area.
True
True or false: Maritime air masses are formed over land.
False
Where do warm fronts form?
Where a warm air mass moves up and over a cold air mass
What do warm fronts bring when they pass?
Layered stratus clouds and increasing air pressure and temperature
True or false: Weather patterns are not influenced by the movement of air masses.
False
True or false: Pressure is measured with a barometer.
True
Study Notes
- Probability of precipitation is the likelihood of rain at any point in the area on a given day.
- Weather depends on heat from the sun and water.
- Air masses flow from high pressure to low pressure, causing weather to change over time.
- Sudden changes in weather can result when different air masses collide.
- Pressure is measured with a barometer, and a rising barometer indicates high pressure.
- Air masses bring different types of weather depending on their source.
- Meteorologists identify air masses by the regions from which they originate: polar, tropical, continental, or maritime.
- Fronts are boundaries between air masses that give information to predict temperature, humidity, and air pressure.
- Cold fronts form where a cold air mass moves under a warm air mass, causing rapid precipitation and thunderstorms.
- Warm fronts form where a warm air mass moves up and over a cold air mass, bringing layered stratus clouds and increasing air pressure and temperature when the front passes.
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