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NIFE WEATHER EXAM WITH 100%
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Weather - correct answers ✔✔The condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place. Elements of Weather - correct answers ✔✔Air temperature, Air pressure, Humidity, Precipitation, Clouds and Fog, Wind Climate - correct answers ✔✔The average weather conditions in an area over a long period of time Wind - correct answers ✔✔The horizontal movement of air from an area of high pressure to an area of lower pressure Air Masses - correct answers ✔✔A body of air that covers a large region; has similar temperature and moisture throughout it. Front - correct answers ✔✔Boundary where two air masses meet. Warm front - correct answers ✔✔when a warm, less dense air mass overtakes a cold, dense air mass; brings rain and showers followed by warmer, more humid weather; move slowly Warm front symbol - correct answers ✔✔Represented by a red line with semi-circles
Cold Front - correct answers ✔✔The boundary between a mass of cold air and a mass of warm air where the cold air is pushing the warm air upward, creating a storm. Cold Front Symbol - correct answers ✔✔Represented by a blue line with triangles Stationary Front - correct answers ✔✔Stalled; not moving ; when a warm air mass and a cold air mass meet and no movement occurs Stationary Front Symbol - correct answers ✔✔Looks like cold and warm front symbols together Occluded Front - correct answers ✔✔when a fast-moving cold front overtakes a slow-moving warm front Occluded Front Symbol - correct answers ✔✔Purple line with symbols High Pressure System - correct answers ✔✔Sinking air moves away from the system's center when it reaches Earth's surface; brings clear skies and fair weather Low Pressure System - correct answers ✔✔When air from outside the system replaces the rising air, this air spirals inward toward the center and then upward; may cause clouds and precipitation Types of Severe Weather - correct answers ✔✔Thunderstorms, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, and Blizzards Isobars - correct answers ✔✔Lines on a map connecting points of equal pressure
condensation - correct answers ✔✔water vapor cools and becomes a liquid humidity - correct answers ✔✔the amount of water vapor in the air precipitation - correct answers ✔✔water as a liquid or a solid that falls to Earth (rain, snow, sleet, hail) dew point - correct answers ✔✔measure of humidity at which dew will start to form wind moves from - correct answers ✔✔High to Low pressure warm air molecules... - correct answers ✔✔expand and spread apart cold air has molecules that... - correct answers ✔✔condense and move together Wind moves from the ___________ to the east - correct answers ✔✔WEST isobars - correct answers ✔✔on a weather map, areas that have similar pressures are indicated using these lines convection - correct answers ✔✔heat energy moving from one place to another due to the motion of the warm and cold air masses (rising and sinking) nitrogen - correct answers ✔✔the most abundant gas in the atmosphere atmosphere - correct answers ✔✔the mass of air that surrounds the Earth above its surface
ocean current - correct answers ✔✔streams of water within the ocean that move in regular patterns that are caused by winds and density of water at different salinity and temperatures The Air - correct answers ✔✔the moisture that forms on the outside of a glass of ice water comes from... oceans - correct answers ✔✔Most of the water on Earth is stored here Sun - correct answers ✔✔The major source of energy for the water cycle temperature and pressure decrease - correct answers ✔✔as air rises from the Earth into the atmosphere... infiltration - correct answers ✔✔water that moves underground seeping through the space between Earth particles watershed - correct answers ✔✔an area of land that drains or flows to a common location, like a river, lake, aquifier or ocean aquifer - correct answers ✔✔stores water underground in layers of rock, sand, gravel, or clay groundwater - correct answers ✔✔found below the surface of the earth Evapotranspiration - correct answers ✔✔the release of water vapor into the air by plants
