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Jeopardy. Earth Science Edition. Meteorology. What are narrow bands of fast, high-altitude westerly wind?. A: jet streams. What are long term variations in weather?. A: Climate. What is a narrow region separating two air masses of different densities?. A: front.

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  1. Jeopardy Earth Science Edition

  2. Meteorology

  3. What are narrow bands of fast, high-altitude westerly wind? • A: jet streams

  4. What are long term variations in weather? • A: Climate

  5. What is a narrow region separating two air masses of different densities? • A: front

  6. What is a record of weather for a particular site at a particular time? • A: Station Model

  7. What are lines that connect points of equal value? • A: Isopleths or isolines

  8. How do you classify an air mass? • A: By the Source Region

  9. Which type of front has a cold air mass overtaking a warm front? • A: Occluded front

  10. What type of air mass is bitter cold and dry all year? • A: Arctic

  11. What type of air mass is Mp and what are the conditions? • A: Maritime Polar. Wet and cold

  12. As temperature increases, pressure increases or decreases and density increases or decreases • A: pressure increases, density decreases

  13. Does high pressure rise or sink? • A: High Pressure sinks

  14. Where do the trade winds occur? What latitude? • A: 0 to 30° Latitude

  15. Due to the Coriolis effect, moving particles get deflected to which direction in the southern hemisphere? • A: Left

  16. What causes the Coriolis effect? • A: Earth’s Rotation

  17. In which direction do polar easterlies flow? • A: from east to west

  18. What is used to measure air pressure? • A: Barometer

  19. Low pressure systems are associated with what kind of weather? • A: Stormy

  20. How do you measure the height of clouds? • A: Ceilometer

  21. What device measures relative humidity? • A: Hygrometer

  22. What does a Doppler radar measure? • A: The speed of precipitation (raindrops)

  23. What forecast relies on numerical data? • A: Digital

  24. Isopleths that connect different pressures are called? • A: Isobars

  25. What color and shape are used to represent a warm front? • A: Red, semi-circles / scallops

  26. What does it mean when isobar lines are further apart? • A: less wind, less dramatic weather condition

  27. What does the circle represent in a station model? • A: percentage of cloud cover

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