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| Earth’s rotation from east to west |
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| Which way does it cause particles to move in each hemisphere? |
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Northern Hemisphere- Right
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| Current state of the atmosphere |
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| Imbalances in earth’s____ ____ help create the weather? |
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| What is the difference between weather radar and weather satellite? |
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Radar-Tracks precipitation; Emits electromagnetic waves
Satellite-Takes photos;Tracks clouds;Infrared imagery |
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Low-pressure systems are usually associated with what type of weather?
Clouds and rainy weather
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| Clouds and rainy weather;Sometimes wave cyclones |
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| What is the Doppler Effect? |
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Change in wave frequency that occurs in energy as that energy moves towards or away from an observer
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Police siren |
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| A record of weather data for an individual site at a particular time |
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| Lines that connect points of equal or constant value |
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| What is air mass modification? |
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| The exchange of heat or moisture with the surface over which an air mass travels |
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| Lines of equal temperature |
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| The air generally ____ above areas of surface low pressure. |
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| The air generally ____ above areas of surface high pressure. |
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| Air masses are best characterized by similar properties of ____ and ____ in any horizontal direction. |
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Temperature
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| Ability of an air mass to resist rising |
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| An approaching front brings ____ weather. |
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| Which way do air masses move across the United States? |
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| What type of air masses would arrive form the Gulf of Mexico? |
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| Where do maritime air masses originate? |
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| If an air mass stayed over the Sahara Desert, what type of characteristics would it have? |
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| What is the wind system that lies between the poles and about 60 degrees latitude in both hemispheres? |
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| What are the characteristics of maritime polar? |
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| What are the characteristics of maritime tropical? |
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| What are the characteristics of continental tropical? |
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| What are the characteristics of continental polar? |
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| narrow bands of fast, high altitude, westerly winds |
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| Winds occurring between 30 degrees north and south latitudes and the equator? |
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| Winds that flow between 30 and 60 degrees north and south latitudes? |
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| What type of front is associated with an advancing warm air mass displacing a cold air mass? |
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| What is the type of front where cold air mass displaces a warm air mass and forces the warm air to rise steeply? |
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| What is the type of front where two air masses with similar temperatures and pressures meet, and neither advances into the other's territory? |
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| What is the type of front where a warm air mass is squeezed upward between two cold air masses? |
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| air mass that originates over oceans |
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| front that brings in steady rain |
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| pressure belt at the equator |
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| effect that is used in radar |
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| front that brings in thunderstorms |
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| study of atmospheric phenomena |
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| connect points of equal pressure |
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| lines of equal temperature |
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| the tropics get more ____ sunlight |
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| strong low pressure system |
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| current state of the atmosphere |
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| imagery that detects thermal energy |
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| air moves inward and upward |
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| long-term variations in weather |
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| balloon-borne package of sensors |
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| measures height of clouds |
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