Westerlies Easterlies Jet Streams Monsoons Land Breeze

Weather Study Guide

Cumulus Cumulonimbus Stratocumulus Cirrocumulus Stratus

Nimbostratus Cirrostratus Cirrus Wind Trade Winds

Westerlies Easterlies Jet Streams Monsoons Land Breeze

Sea Breeze Coriolis Effect Front Warm Front Cold Front

Stationary Front Occluded Front Thunderstorms Thunder Lightning

Tornadoes Hurricanes Updraft Downdraft Wind Shear

Air Masses Continental Tropical Continental Polar Maritime Tropical

Maritime Polar

Short Answer Questions

1) What are the main characteristics of Cumulus, Stratus, and Cirrus clouds?

2) Why do winds occur?

3) Compare and contrast trade winds, easterlies, and westerlies.

4) How are jet streams different from the other types of global winds?

5) How does the coriolis effect impact the global winds?

6) What type of monsoon brings precipitation over the land and why?

7) Explain the different between land and sea breezes.

8) How are monsoons, land, and sea breezes related?

9) What are the similarities between the different types of fronts?

10) How do the different types of air masses impact fronts?

11) Why must you have lightning in order to have thunder?

12) Why does understanding how thunderstorms form help understand how tornadoes and hurricanes are formed?