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Global Wind
100
This is the process of the water cycle forms clouds.
What is condensation?
100
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This is the difference in air pressure from one location to another.
What is a pressure gradient?
100
It is what forms when two air masses meet?
What is a front?
100
This tool measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
100
This is why the Earth's winds curve.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
200
This powers the water cycle.
What is the Sun?
200
This is a breeze that blows from land to sea only at night.
What is a land breeze?
200
On a weather map, it is indicated by a curved line with red half circles.
What is a warm front?
200
This is the force that pushes on air molecules?
What is air pressure?
200
These are global wind that affects the weather in the U.S.
What is the prevailing westerlies.
300
Rain, sleet, snow, and hail are its forms.
What is Precipitation?
300
This breeze blows from sea to land during the day.
What is a sea breeze?
300
The weather forecast indicates that the temperature will change very quickly with the chance of a tornado. This is due to this weather system moving into the area.
What is a cold front?
300
Differences in air pressure causes this.
What is wind?
300
These global winds are what sailors used for direction to sell goods?
What are the trade winds
400
This type of cloud is thin and wispy.
What is a cirrus cloud?
400
This cloud indicates fair weather. 
What is a cumulus cloud?
400
This type of front brings many days of cloudy, wet weather.
What is a stationary front.
400
This is the condition of the atmosphere at a particular place and time.
What is weather?
400
This is the direction the Polar Easterlies travel.
What is East to West?
500
This cloud is large, dark and high in the sky. It is associated with bad weather such as thunderstorms.
What is a Cumulonimbus cloud?
500
This causes differences in air pressure around the world?
What is the uneven heating of the Earth?
500
Warm air mass meets and rises above cold air masses during this kind of front.
:Double Jeopardy:
What is a warm front.
500
This is a large body of air with similar temperature, humidity and air pressure that forms over land or water.
:double jeopardy:
What is an air mass?
500
This is a fast, narrow current of air flowing from west to east that encircles the globe.
What is the jet stream?