Topic: Humidity, Air Masses
and Fronts, Storms, Predicting
Weather
Chapter 14 (Sec 4)`1 and
Chapter 15 (Sec 1, 2, and 4)
WATER IN THE
ATMOSPHERE: What is
humidity?
What is relative humidity?
How is relative humidity
measured?
What is a psychrometer?
How do clouds form?
Name the types of clouds and
classify them:
WEATHER PATTERNS:
What are the 4 types of air
masses? Classify them: Are
they dry or humid?
How do air masses move?
What are Fronts?
What are the four types of
fronts?
What are Cyclones? What are
Anticyclones?
STORMS: What is a storm?
What is a tornado?
What is a hurricane?
How does a hurricane form?
What is the eye of the
hurricane?
How do Hurricanes move?
Predicting Weather Change:
What is the difference
between weather and
climate?
What is El Nino?
What is a weather map?
What are isobars? Isotherms?
Draw the symbols for: Cold
Front, Warm Front, Stationary
Name:
Date:
Period:
Front, Occluded Front
ALL OTHER WEATEHR
MAP SYMBOLS ARE ON
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