Is climate measured over: a. hours and days b. months and years?

Is climate measured over:a. hours and days

b. months and years?

Months and years

How does a latitude far from the equator affect temperature and wind?a. Temperature is colder and winds

blow from the south to the northb. Temperature is colder and winds

blow from the west to the eastc. Temperature is colder and winds

blow from the east to the south

• C. Temperature is colder and winds blow from the east to the south

•What does the barometer measure?

•Air pressure

• If the pressure is high, what will the weather be like?

•Sunny, fair

•What does the Gulf stream do to the coastal temperature In North Carolina in the winter?• A. Keep it cold• B. Keep it mild• C. Keep it raining

•Keep it mild

•What does the Greenhouse effect do to Earth?• A. keeps it hot• B. Harm it• C. keep it warm with a

protective layer of gases

•Keeps us protected with a warm layer of gases

• A ___________ front occurs when two air masses meet and stop.• A. stationary front• B. cold front• C. warm front

• stationary

What is this symbol indicate and in what direction would it be moving?

•Warm front moving northwest

•What prevailing winds mostly affect North Carolina?

•Westerlies

•What is the huge air current that goes from the western U.S. and dips down through the south?

• Jet stream

• This measures precipitation

•Rain gauge

•A ____________front happens when a cold air mass slips under a warm air mass.

•warm

•A_____________pressure system brings rain.

• low

Sunny weather occurs when the barometer is:

Low or High

•High

• The sun heats the earth through:•A. Conduction•B. convection•C. radiation

• radiation

• The earth heats the air by•A. Conduction•B. convection•C. radiation

• The earth heats the air by•A. Conduction

• Four types of precipitation are:

•Rain, snow, sleet, hail

•Water as a gas is called….

•Water vapor

•Big, high stacks of cumulus clouds bring….weather

•Rainy, snowy

•Cirrus clouds are ___________(high or low) in the atmosphere

•high

•An air mass is a large amount of air that has the same__________and _______________

• Temperature and humidity

Stratus clouds are:

• A. Big, dark clouds that bring rain• B. low, gray clouds that cover

the sky• C. puffy, white clouds you see in

sunny weather

•b

• These form along the coast of N.C. in summer and fall and bring powerful winds and rain

•hurricanes

What event could lead to heavy thunderstorms?

•A. cold front•B. warm front•C. high pressure system

•A. cold front

What word best describes the weather in N.C.?

•Cold•Warm•mild

•Mild!

What might tell us that fair weather is changing to story weather?

• The barometer gets higher• The barometer gets lower• The wind speed is

decreasing

• The barometer gets lower

In what direction does the jet stream usually flow?a. West to eastb. East to westc. North to south

•West to east

• In what direction do westerlies flow?

•West to East

• What is the reason scientists think polar winds and westerlies blow in a curve?• A. Because coasts are curved• b. Because the earth rotates on its

axis• C. because of high pressure systems

•b. Because the earth rotates on its axis

Which of these is an ocean current?

a. El Ninob. Gulf Streamc. Jet Stream

•Gulf stream

Which would be an example of a microclimate?

•A. The Highland Creek neighborhood•B. The Piedmont region of

NC•C. Downtown Chicago

•C-Chicago

•When are you most likely to see cumulus clouds:•A. Sunny day•B. Very rainy day•C. Foggy day

•A-sunny day

What does this symbol mean? And what direction is it moving?

•Cold front moving south

•How is weather different than climate?

•Weather changes daily

What could bring clouds and precipitation that last for several

days?

Stationary front

High pressure area

Warm front

• Stationary front