AS200 C2L1 - The Atmosphere

Transatlantic

• across an Ocean

• across the Atlantic Ocean

• across the Pacific Ocean

extending across a continent (coast-to-coast)

• transcontinental

• transatlantic

• air masses

• continental

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Match the following

• stationary front

• a pair of air masses, neither of which is strong enough to replace the other.

• warm fronts

• A boundary between two air masses

• occluded front

• a moving warm air mass overtakes a slowly moving cold air mass

• cold front

• a boundary area that forms when a fast moving cold front catches up with a slow moving warm front

• Fronts

• forms when cold air moves under warm air which is less dense and replaces a warmer air mass.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

abrupt changes in the direction of wind by 45 degrees or more in less than 15 minutes with winds of at least 10 knots

• warm fronts

• air masses

• wind shifts

• continental

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Cirriform relates to all types of ​ ​ (a)   clouds

• Cirrus
• Cumulonimbus
• Nimbostratus
• Altostratus
• Cirrostratus

squall line is a ​ (a)   of high winds and storms associated with a ​

​ (b)   .

• narrow band
• cold front
• wide band
• warm front

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

In the direction away from the wind

• Leeward

• Windward

• rain shadow

• orographic lifting

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

being in or facing the direction from which the wind is blowing

• rain shadow

• orographic lifting

• Leeward

• Windward

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Match the following

• continental

• relating to or characteristic of land

• terrain

• relating to the sea

• maritime

• An area of land; anything from mountains to coastlines and lakeshores.

• orographic lifting

• occurs when an air mass is forced to rise over a topographic barrier

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

rain shadow is a region with ​ (a)   conditions found on the ​ (b)   side of a mountain range because of warming air and decreasing clouds.

• dry
• leeward
• wet
• winward

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5