MYP Earth Science Study Guide 2015-2016 Midterm
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Global wind belt
The Major global wind belts are:
What are jet streams?
What is Wind?
How is wind related to air temperature and air pressure?
What is wind chill?
What are local winds?
What is a sea breeze?
What is a land breeze?
What is the Coriolis Effect?
What is an air mass?
How do scientists classify air masses?
What are the four major types of air masses which influence the
weather in North America?
Whether an air mass is humid or dry depends upon whether it forms
over?
Continental air masses form over?
Warm, humid air masses form over?
In the west, maritime tropical air masses form over which ocean?
In the summer, tropical air masses bring:
In the winter, tropical air masses bring:
Characteristics of air masses depend on?
Where does a maritime polar air mass form?
Where does a continental polar air mass form?
Where does a continental tropical air mass form?
In the Continental U.S. air masses are commonly moved by?
What is a front?
Air masses do not easily mix, so when they meet at a front what
happens?
When a plane flies from the west coast to the east coast why does it
take less time?
What are the four types of fronts?
Draw the four fronts
Cold
Warm
Stationary
Occluded
Cold air is denser, so it goes over or under a warm front?
When a rapidly moving cold air mass runs into a slow moving warm air
mass what occurs?
As the warm air rises at the cold front, it expands and cools. Why?
Describe a Cold front.
Describe a warm front.
Describe a stationary front.
Describe an occluded front.
What is a cyclone?
Describe how a cyclone works.
Cyclone and decreasing air pressures are associated with ___ ____
and_____?
What is an anti-cyclone?
What is a storm?
What is a thunderstorm?
When do cumulonimbus clouds form?
How do cumulonimbus clouds form?
What is lightning?
What causes thunder?
What damage Can thunderstorms cause?
Where is the safest place to be in a thunderstorm?
What is a tornado?
How do tornadoes form?
What is tornado alley?
What damage do tornadoes cause?
How are tornadoes ranked?
Where is the safest place to be in a tornado? Why?
What is a hurricane?
How do hurricanes form?
How long do hurricanes last?
What is a storm surge?
What is a “hurricane watch”?
What is a “hurricane warning”?
What is a drought? How does it occur?
What is a flood? How does it occur?
What is a blizzard? How does it occur?
What are ocean currents?
What causes ocean surface currents?
Deep ocean currents are created by?
How do ocean currents and global winds affect climate?
How does El Nino affect the climate around the world?
What is an earthquake?
What is a seismic wave?
What are the three seismic waves?
What instrument is used to record earthquakes?
What are the two scales used to measure earthquakes?
What is the Richter scale?
What is the Modified Mercalli intensity scale?