Heat Transfer
When heat is transferred through physical touch.
Conduction.
When two air masses meet and neither moves past the other.
A stationary front.
An episode of severe weather caused by major disturbances in the atmosphere.
Storm.
Where should you go during a tornado if you are in a house?
The basement.
Gases in our atmosphere trap heat and prevent it from escaping into space.
Greenhouse effect.
What is the most common type of precipitation that falls when air masses meet?
Rain.
Where should you go during a tornado if you are in a school or public building?
What is the lowest level of the building.
How fast or slow particles are moving in a substance.
Thermal energy.
When a slow-moving cold air mass meets a fast-moving warm air mass what type of front forms?
A warm front.
A snow storm with high winds.
A blizzard.
April through June
What are the months that the most tornadoes occur?
Warm air rises, cold air falls.
Convection.
The boundary of where air masses meet.
An air front.
A tall cumulonimbus cloud.
A thunderhead.
Very high water level below the eye of a hurricane.
Storm Surge
What should you do if you’re in a car during a hurricane?
What is pull over and do not drive through puddles.
Energy that travels from the sun, through space, and enters Earth's atmosphere.
Electromagnetic waves.
A band of high-speed winds about Earth's atmosphere.
Jet streams.
Winter storms develop from what?
Cyclones
Scale used rate the damage and speed of hurricanes.
The Saffir-Simpson scale