Review of
Weather factors
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Row 1, Col 1
The percent of water in the air
compared to how much could
be in the air at a certain
temperature
What is relative humidity?
1,2
Air moves from one type of
pressure to another type of
pressure to create wind
What is high pressure to low pressure?
1,3
True or False – There is more air
pressure at low altitudes because
there is more atmosphere
above you.
What is … true?
1,4
What happens when air masses
meet
What is … warm air rises?
2,1
The temperature at which
water condenses
What is dew point?
2,2
The name of what causes
air to move in a curved
pattern due to the rotation
of the earth
What is the Coriolis effect?
2,3
It’s the biggest factor affecting
the amount of water
pressure.
What is depth?
2,4
Type of front that produces the
most dramatic weather
What is a cold front?
3,1
The temperature of air (warm or
cold) that can hold more
moisture
What is warm air?
3,2
In the Northern hemisphere it is
the direction (left, right, up,
down) that air drifts as it moves
from South to North or North
to South
What is … to the right?
3,3
Instrument used to measure
air pressure.
What is a barometer?
3,4
Type of front that results in
many days of cloudy, wet
weather
What is a stationary front?
4,1
name for water forming on
the outside of a glass
What is condensation?
4,2
An instrument used to measure
wind direction.
What is a wind vane?
4,3
A line that connects points of
equal pressure is called this.
What is an isobar?
4,4
This front’s symbol on a weather
map is blue with triangles.
What is a cold front?
5,1
The instrument that measures
humidity
What is a psychrometer?
5,2
An instrument used to measure
wind speed
What is an anemometer?
5,3
The type of pressure system on a
weather map that is responsible
for cooler, cloudy, and rainy
weather
What is low pressure?
5,4
Front when a cold air mass
catches up with a warm front
of warm and cold air masses
that is moving in the same
direction.
What is an occluded front?
Final
The weather factor that
influences almost all other
weather factors
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What is temperature?