Weather Symbols And Tools

Question 1

Air Mass

Answer 1

A large body of air with similar properties

Question 2

Maritime Polar Air

Answer 2

Forms close to water and the poles and brings cold humid weather.

Question 3

Maritime tropical air

Answer 3

Forms near water and equator and brings hot and humid weather.

Question 4

Continental Polar Air

Answer 4

Forms near land and the poles and brings dry,cold weather.

Question 5

Continental Tropical Air

Answer 5

Forms near land nd near the equator and brings hot dry weather.

Question 6

Front

Answer 6

A boundary between two air masses. Where weather happens.

Question 7

Warm Front

Answer 7

When warm air overrides cold air and brings long periods of drizzles.

Question 8

Cold front

Answer 8

When a cold air mass meets and causes warm air masses to rise and produces heavy rain or snow.

Question 9

Barometer

Answer 9

Measures air pressure

Question 10

Anemometer

Answer 10

Measures wind speed

Question 11

Hydrometer

Answer 11

Measures moisture in the air

Question 12

Rain gauge

Answer 12

Measures how much rain has fallen

Question 13

Radar

Answer 13

Measures precipitation and wind inside a storm

Question 14

Wind vane

Answer 14

Shows which way the wind is blowing

Question 15

Oclluded front

Answer 15

A cold air mass overtakes a slow moving warm air mass and squashes in between another cold air mass and forces warm air to move up. Brings precipitation. Cooler temps

Question 16

Stationary front

Answer 16

A cold air mass and a warm air mass meet but don’t give in to each other. Drizzles