Severe Weather
Localized weather phenomena that involves thunder, lightning, heavy winds, driving rain and sometimes hail.
What is a thunderstorm?
What are the dark cumulus clouds called?
What is cumulonimbus?
A large body of air with relatively uniform pressure.
What is air mass?
A cold front is associated with this type of weather.
What is thunderstorms?
The movement of air is ___________.
What is wind?
Cloud to cloud lightning is called...
What is sheet lightning?
Feathery, wisp-like clouds high in the troposphere that are made of ice crystals.
What are cirrus clouds?
Cool or cold air is typically associated with __________ pressure.
What is high pressure?
____________ refers to conditions on earth at a particular time. ___________ refers to steady conditions day after day in a particular region.
What are weather and climate?
The most common season for tornadoes to occur.
What is the spring?
A type of cloud that forms a blanket in the sky and blocks the sun.
What is stratus?
What type of air mass typically expands and rises?
What is warm?
A type of front that involves 3 different air masses.
What is an occluded front?
Energy from the sun is referred to as ____________, which is short for incoming solar radiation.
What is insolation?
Hurricanes form in this region of Earth.
What is the Equator?
The substance in the troposphere upon which water vapor condenses and forms clouds.
What is cloud condensation nuclei?
Three basic types of air masses.
What arctic, polar and tropical?
A type of front that produces gentle rain showers.
What is a warm front?
The way in which the rotation of the earth bends the path of winds, sea currents, and objects that fly through different latitudes.
What is the Coriolis effect?
Name the three stages of a thunderstorm.
What is a cumulus, mature & dissipating?
A change in air temperature due to latitude and the Coriolis effect cause these on Earth.
What is global wind patterns?