Air Mass
What is an air mass
What is a large body of air that extends for miles and miles
What type of precipitation forms when water condenses at temperatures above 0 degrees Celcius
What is rain
what type of front results in cold air moving into warm air?
What is a cold front
What type of weather does high pressure cause?
What is sunny fair weather
When do hurricanes lose their energy?
What is when they approach or move over land or colder water.
Does the air that originates over Canada cold or hot moist or dry
What is cold and dry?
What type of precipitation forms when rain comes into contact with cold air below 0 degrees Celsius as it falls to Earth?
What is sleet?
What type of front results in hot air moving in and cold air out
What is a warm front
what type of cloud does a tornado form from?
What is cumulonimbus or wall cloud.
Which level of tornado causes the most damage?
What is EF5
Does the air mass over Florida warm or cold; moist or dry
What is warm and moist
Required to form clouds
What is a mother particle, typically a small speck of dust or salt?
What type of front causes cold air and warm air to not move
What is a stationary front
High clouds
What is Cirrus
Electrical discharge between areas of opposite charge
What are lightning bolts?
Where does an air mass originate?
What is over land and water
When hail forms
What is when water droplets freeze around a nuclei of ice inside of clouds.
When air hold its maximum amount of humidity.
What is saturated
low, layered gray clouds
What is stratus?
Lines on a weather map connecting points of equal pressure
What are isobars?
What happens when two air masses meet?
What is bad weather or types of precipitation?
This determines the size of hail stones
What is the amount of moisture in the clouds that falls to Earth. Lots of moisture results in small droplets joining together and forming large hailstones.
Where does bad weather occur?
What is at a frontal boundary between two air masses
Tornadoes form when
What is warm air gets trapped by colder air. Warm air punches a hole through the cold air masses and rushes upward through the opening creating a violent whirling funnel of wind.
At which wind speed does a storm turn into a hurricane?
What is 74 mph?