Weather Patterns, Fronts, Predictions

A huge body of air that has similar temp, humidity, and air pressure

• air mass

• front

• tornado

• anticyclone

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

What type of pressure brings clear, sunny skies?

• high

• low

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

What type of pressure brings rainy, stormy weather?

• high

• low

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

A warm water event that occurs in the Pacific Ocean .

• Atlantic

• La Nina

• El Nino

• Hurricane

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Forms over water, wet

• Maritime

• Tropical

• Continental

• Polar

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Forms over land, dry

• Maritime

• Tropical

• Continental

• Polar

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Warm, near the equator

• Maritime

• Tropical

• Continental

• Polar

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

cold, near the poles

• Maritime

• Tropical

• Continental

• Polar

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Dome of water that sweeps across the coast of a hurricane

• Eye

• Tropical surge

• Storm surge

• Polar

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Pushes air masses West to East

• Prevailing Westerlies

• Jet streams

• Prevailing Easterlies

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6