Weather and Atmospheric Phenomena Quiz

What has different temperatures because of the uneven heating of the earth's surface?

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What is the study of atmospheric phenomena?

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Describe an air mass?

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What results when two air masses with different pressures and temperatures move, change and collide?

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What are three major wind systems?

• Polar Easterlies

• The prevailing westerlies

• The trade winds

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What influences the weather in the middle latitudes?

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What are the four types of fronts?

• Cold front

• Warm front

• Stationary front

• Occluded front

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Air moves in a generally circular motion around what?

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How do meteorologists make accurate weather forecasts?

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What collects upper atmospheric data?