Tornadoes
A tornado starts when these two things collide.
What are warm and cold air.
This is when water particles gather into drops and fall from the cloud.
What is rain?
This type of air mass is cold due to being near the Earth's poles.
What are Polar Air masses?
This is the main source of Thermal Energy on Earth
What is the sun?
This is the amount of thermal energy in the air.
What is temperature?
If a weather front moves in too quickly this can get trapped.
What is warm air?
This is what happens when snow particles freeze in the air and drift to the ground.
What is snow.
This type of air mass is warm due to being near the equator.
What are tropical air masses?
Higher heat means that there is a lot of this.
What is thermal energy?
This is the amount of moisture in the air.
What is humidity?
When warm air gets caught under cold air and forces its way upwards, it forms this.
What is a funnel cloud?
This is when rain freezes on the way down.
What is sleet?
This is the type of air mass found over oceans and large bodies of water.
What are Maritime Air Masses
Thermal energy can transfer into this kind of energy.
What is kinetic energy?
This is determined by how close the air particles are packed together.
What is air density?
What is touch the ground?
This happens when water freezes in the air and is blown back up, gathering more ice before falling.
What is hail?
This type of Air mass is found over large bodies of land.
What are continental air masses.
This is a material's ability to absorb and hold thermal energy.
What is heat capacity?
This is the amount of force pushing down on a body of air.
What is air pressure?
This country gets the most Tornadoes.
What is the U.S.
When water particles move into an area without forming full droplets.
This kind of air mass would come from over the Sahara desert.
What is a tropical continental air mass?
This part of the Earth gets the most thermal energy.
What is the equator?
Air pressure decreases as this increases.
What is altitude?