The accuracy of weather predictions_______ as you get farther in the future.

Warm fronts generally bring ________ if the warm air mass is humid.

As fronts move over Earth’s surface, they cause changes in

Humidity affects how ______ you feel.

Fronts commonly form as air masses and rotate around what?

Weather models are designed to show how elements of weather affect each other

Front that forms when a cold front moves toward and takes over a warm front?

The temperature of air is related to the kinetic energy of .

In an occluded front, a warm air mass is and separated from the ground.

Front that forms where a cold air mass and a warm air mass meet and become still?

Earth’s surface warms ______, so differences in air pressures are a result.

Weather models represent ______ between the elements that influence weather.

An air mass that forms above a warm, dry desert will be?

What type of front is likely to produce thunderstorms?

Scientists compare predictions from models against the ______.

To make a weather forecast, ______ weather conditions are considered.

brings many days of clouds and precipitation.

Weather forecasts are _____ about temperature, wind, precipitation, cloud cover, and humidity.

water vapor in the air relative to the max amount of water vapor that can be in the air.

front that forms where a warm air mass overrides a cold air mass?

analyze weather forecast model results and share that information with the public.

water vapor in the air is called .

what can slowly change when air masses travel and conditions on Earth’s surface below the air mass change?

large body of air that has similar temperature and humidity throughout it.

Weather takes place in what sphere?

Weather forecast models are _______________ made up of equations

short-term conditions of the atmosphere at a particular time and place?

Past and current weather data is collected and input into

how hot or cold something is?

High water vapor in the air, means the ______ the humidity of the air is.

Wind blows as air moves from areas of ________,

This moves clouds and precipitation over Earth’s surface.

Evaporation is part of __________.

Cool and humid air masses will likely form over what?

formed when two air masses of different temperatures and densities meet but do not mix?

The greater the air pressure difference

the ______ the air moves and the ______ the wind is.

prediction about the condition of the atmosphere at a given place and time.

If wind alone caused the movement of the surface ocean currents, how would the water move?

What causes wind?

Deep ocean currents are also called

Air temperature increases and air molecule movement do what?

Earth revolves around the sun, this force makes things like planes or storms appear to move at a curve instead of a straight line

Which air has the most pressure?

how does cool wind move during a sea breeze?

Choose statements that apply to density currents.

Which IS NOT an actual wind current?

At the equator air is _____ and _____ at the poles.

winds that blow at the same speed and in the same direction?

Two factors affecting the density of water?

A warm current responsible for violent weather like hurricanes and thunderstorms that happen along the coast.

Winds that we feel

Which of the following cause surface currents?

choose all that apply.

warm current, horizontal stream like movements of water at or near the surface of the ocean

What are the 2 jet streams?

stream like movements of water

Cold, stream like movements of ocean water far below the surface of the ocean

Natural warming of the Earth’s surface and lower atmosphere from heat radiation from the sun

How is climate measured?

Traps energy from the sun and sends the energy as heat into the atmosphere?

Largest carbon sink

Long term changes in the average weather patterns in Earth’s regional and global climate called?

carbon footprint

If population increases on earth and people use more resources cause more

What is the primary cause of climate change?

What does a carbon sink do?

Long term heating of Earth’s climate because of human activity?

if there were no greenhouses gases, life on earth would be

What happens to air pressure as altitude increases?

What is the primary cause of ocean currents?

What type of front is associated with thunderstorms and heavy rain?

What is the term for the process by which water vapor turns into liquid water in the atmosphere?

What is the term for the boundary where two different air masses meet?