WEATHER PATTERNS and CLIMATE STUDY GUIDE
Study Guide Chapter 3: Weather Patterns
Study your handouts and the study guide on page 102
High vs. Low Air Pressure Systems (pg. 78)
Four Types of Air Mass - Figure 2 (pg. 73)
North American Air Masses – Figures 3 (pg. 74)
Types of Fronts and their symbols – Figure 5 (pg. 76)
Understand how and where storms form – (pg. 81-83, 86-88)
Reading Weather Maps – Figure 21 & 22 (pages 96 – 97 - 98)
Vocab Words to study:
Air Mass
Maritime
Continental
Polar
Tropical
Warm Front
Cold Front
Stationary Front
Occluded Front
Thunderstorm
Hurricane
Storm Surge
Lightning
Tornado
Meteorologist
Practice Questions
1. What causes each type of front – warm, cold, stationary, occluded? What type
of weather does each cause?
2. How is air pressure related to good and bad weather?
4. How do hurricanes and tornadoes form? What are the dangers of each?
6. How is information displayed on a weather map? * Weather Station Models*
Study Guide Chapter 4: Climate 7 Climate change
Study your class notes (Factors that Influence Climate) and the study guide on
page 142
Temperature Zones – Figure 1 (pg. 109)
Rain Shadow – Figure 4 (pg.112 - 113)
The Seasons – Figure 7 (pg. 115)
Vocab Words to study:
Climate
Tropical Zone
Polar Zone
Marine Climate
Continental Climate
Leeward
Windward
Monsoon
Practice Questions
1. What factors cause a climate to be wet of dry?
2. What factors cause a climate to be warm or cold?
3. What causes the earth’s seasons?
Temperate Zone