Severe Weather
What are whirling columns of high speed winds?
Tornadoes
What is a boundary between two different air masses, resulting in stormy weather?
Front
What is a mass of cool, dry air that generally brings fair weather and light winds?
High pressure
What is the condition of the atmosphere at a certain time and place?
Weather
What is a funnel shaped cloud that touches the ground?
Tornado
What are brief heavy storms that produce strong winds, heavy rain, lightning, and thunder?
Thunderstorms
What is the boundary between two air masses, where the cold air moves and replaces warm air?
Cold front
What is a mass of warm, moist air and generally brings strong winds and stormy weather?
Low pressure
What are average weather conditions over a long period of time?
Climate
What type of weather has winds that are at least 120MPH?
Hurricane
What are air currents inside clouds that cause static charges?
Lightning
What is a boundary between two air masses when the warmer air replaces the cold air?
Warm front
What type of air pressure is represented by a red L on weather map?
Low pressure area
What causes water to be pushed to the shore by strong winds moving around a storm?
Storm surge
Where are the strongest winds located in a hurricane?
What are severe storms that form over the warmest parts of ocean?
Hurricanes
What kind of front is represented on a map as a blue line with the triangles pointing toward the direction the front is moving?
Cold front
What is a large body of air with similar properties of temperature and moisture content (humidity), at any given altitude?
Air mass
What is a line on a map connecting points having the same atmospheric pressure at a given time or on average over a given period?
Isobar
Tornadoes
What gets energy from the condensation of water vapor?
Hurricanes
What kind of front is represented as a red line with half circles pointing towards the direction of movement on a weather map?
Warm front
What regions do air masses form over?
Polar, tropical, maritime and continental
What kind of weather can hurt people and damage property?
Severe weather
What is a low pressure area that is accompanied by thunderstorms and produces a circular wind flow with maximum sustained winds below 39 mph?
Tropical Depression