Weather Flashcards
Bbc symbols
Set of symbols used to tell the weather
Line graph
Air pressure/ temperature
Bar graph
Hours of sunshine/perception
Scatter graph
Used to show links between two sets of data
Climate graph
Temperature and rainfall
Wind rose
Wind direction is shown
Weather station circles
Used to give more detail about the weather
Fronts
Warm and cold air masses meet
Bring cloud and rain
Occluded front
Where a warm and cd front merge
Frontal rain
The rain caused by fronts
Isobars
Join up places of equal air pressure
Weather systems
Patterns of weather brought by air pressure
Anticyclones
High pressure systems caused by sinking air so no clouds or rain
Weather
Current condition in the atmosphere
Maritime
Wet
Polar/ Arctic
Cold
Continental
Dry
Tropical
Wet
Polar maritime
Cold and wet weather
Arctic maritime
Cold and wet weather
Tropical maritime
Hot and wet weather
Tropical continental
Hot and dry weather
Depression wind
Anti clockwise
Anticyclone wind
Clockwise