1. 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt Local Winds Air Masses Global WindsInstrumentsMiscellaneous

2. Winds that are created by local differences in geography such as oceans or mountains

3. What is a local breeze?

4. Wind that begins with high pressure over the land and moves toward low pressure over the ocean

5. What is a land breeze?

6. Wind that starts with high pressure over the ocean and moves toward low pressure over land

7. What is a sea breeze?

8. Wind that begins with high pressure at the mountain top and moves toward the low pressure in the valley below

9. What is a mountain breeze?

10. Wind that starts as high pressure in the valley and moves toward the low pressure on the mountain top

11. What is a valley breeze?

12. The properties of this are determined by the part of the Earth’s surface over which it forms

13. What is an air mass?

14. Name the type of front:

15. What is a warm front?

16. The kind of front that forms when a warm air mass is forced up over a cold air mass

17. What is warm?

18. Name two things that characterize air masses

19. What is moisture content and temperature?

20. An air mass that forms over land

21. What is continental?

22. Winds found between 90º and 60º latitude

23. What is polar easterlies?

24. Winds found at 30º latitude

25. What is horse latitudes?

26. Winds found at the equator

27. What is the doldrums?

28. Prevailing winds of the United States that are found b/w 30 and 60° latitude

29. What are westerlies?

30. Winds that are found between 0º & 30º latitude

31. What are the trade winds?

32. An instrument used to measure temperature

33. What is a thermometer?

34. Sensitive instruments used to measure atmospheric pressure

35. What are barometers?

36. The instrument that measures the amount of water vapor in the air

37. What is the psychrometer?

38. An instrument which measures wind speed

39. What is a anemometer?

40. The instrument that measures wind direction and is shaped like a funnel

41. What is a wind sock?

42. The amount of water vapor in the air

43. What is humidity?

44. How most water gets into the atmosphere

45. What is evaporates?

46. A prediction of weather over the next 3-5 days

47. What is forecast?

48. The boundary between air masses

49. What is a front?

50. The kind of front that forms when a cold air mass moves underneath a warm air mass

51. What is cold?