Weather and Climate

meterologist

• A person who forecast the weather and studies the climate patterns.
• A violent winter storm characterized by freezing temperatures, strong winds, and blowing snow
• intense tropical storm with winds exceeding 119 km/h

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Doppler radar

• intense tropical storm with winds exceeding 119 km/h
• Lines joining places that have the same temperature
• a specialized type of radar that can detect precipitation as well as the movement of small particles, which can be used to approximate wind speed

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

station model

• indicates weather conditions at a specific location, using a combination of symbols on a map
• a front where a warm air mass is caught between two colder air masses and brings cool temperatures and large amounts of rain and snow
• when a warm air mass and a cold air mass meet and no movement occurs

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Isobar

• The average weather conditions in an area over a long period of time determined by temperature and precipitation
• Latitudes between the tropics and the Arctic Circle in the north and the Antarctic Circle in the south; regions with milder climates than the tropics or polar regions.
• A line on a weather map that joins places that have the same air pressure

isotherms

• Lines joining places that have the same temperature
• intense tropical storm with winds exceeding 119 km/h
• Latitudes between the tropics and the Arctic Circle in the north and the Antarctic Circle in the south; regions with milder climates than the tropics or polar regions.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

high pressure system

• A rapidly whirling, funnel-shaped cloud that reaches down to touch Earth's surface.
• a large body of circulating air with high pressure at its center and lower pressure outside of the system
• a specialized type of radar that can detect precipitation as well as the movement of small particles, which can be used to approximate wind speed

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

low pressure system

• A violent winter storm characterized by freezing temperatures, strong winds, and blowing snow
• A line on a weather map that joins places that have the same air pressure
• a large body of circulating air with low pressure at its center and higher pressure outside of the system

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Cold fronts

• cold air moves under warm air forcing warm air up
• A rapidly whirling, funnel-shaped cloud that reaches down to touch Earth's surface.
• A period of extremely cold temperatures when part of the planet's surface was covered with massive ice sheets.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

warm front

• The average weather conditions in an area over a long period of time determined by temperature and precipitation
• A period of extremely cold temperatures when part of the planet's surface was covered with massive ice sheets.
• a front where warm air moves over cold air and brings drizzly rain and then are followed by warm and clear weather

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

stationary front

• intense tropical storm with winds exceeding 119 km/h
• when a warm air mass and a cold air mass meet and no movement occurs
• a large body of circulating air with low pressure at its center and higher pressure outside of the system

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5