Weather

Question 1

Air mass

Answer 1

Air that stays over an area that takes on properties of that area.

Question 2

Continental polar

Answer 2

Cold and dry.

Question 3

Maritime polar

Answer 3

Cold and wet.

Question 4

Maritime tropical

Answer 4

Ward and wet.

Question 5

Continental tropical

Answer 5

Warm and dry.

Question 6

Front

Answer 6

Boundary between two air masses.

Question 7

Warm front

Answer 7

A warm air mass meets and overrides a cold air mass.

Question 8

Cold front

Answer 8

Cold air mass meets and causes a warm air mass to rise.

Question 9

Occluded front

Answer 9

A cold air mass over takes a slower moving warm air mass and forces warm air up. The cold air continues advancing until it meets another cold air mass.

Question 10

Stationary front

Answer 10

A cold air mass meets a warm air mass and results in little movement.

Question 11

Wind vane

Answer 11

Shows the direction wind is blowing from.

Question 12

Rain gauge

Answer 12

Measures how much rain has fallen.

Question 13

Thermometer

Answer 13

Measure how hot it is.

Question 14

Hygrometer

Answer 14

Measures humidity.

Question 15

Barometer

Answer 15

Measures air pressure.

Question 16

Anemometer

Answer 16

Measures wind speed.

Question 17

Climate

Answer 17

The main idea of what the weather is going to be like for the week.

Question 18

Weather

Answer 18

The state of the atmosphere in a certain place and at a certain time.