Air Masses & Fronts
Severe Storms
Climate
Sound & Hearing
Sounds & Surface
100
Where one air mass meets another air mass
What is a front?
100
The most common kind of severe storm
What is a thunderstorm?
100
The winds, distance from a coast, mountain ranges, and ocean currents can help to describe this
What is climate?
100
A back-and-forth movement
What is a vibration?
100
The disappearance of a sound wave into a surface
What is absorption?
200
When cold air moves in under a warm air mass
What is a cold front?
200
A very large swirling storm made from many of thunderstorms with very low pressure at its center
What is a hurricane?
200
The ability of the atmosphere to trap in heat and to let in sunlight
What is greenhouse effect?
200
A vibration that spreads away from a vibrating object
What is a sound wave?
200
The bouncing of a sound wave off a surface
What is reflection?
300
This usually brings calm weather
What is a stationary front?
300
A great rise of the sea along a shore caused by low pressure
What is a storm surge?
300
A balance between energy lost and energy gained
What is radiative balance?
300
The place where fluid filled tube with tiny hair cells are stimulated by vibrations
What is the inner ear?
300
What sound energy is changed into when a sound wave is absorbed
What is heat energy?
400
This type of map shows a summary of the weather using station models
What is a synoptic weather map?
400
Tornadoes that form over water
What are waterspouts?
400
A measure of how high above sea level a place is
What is altitude?
400
How loud or how soft a sound is depends on this in a sound wave
What is the amount of energy?
400
A reflected sound wave
What is an echo?
500
This type of air mass has warm, moist air
What is Maritime tropical?
500
Next generation of weather radar
What is NEXRAD?
500
The two main greenhouse gases
What are water vapor and carbon dioxide?
500
The number of times an object vibrates per second
What is frequency?
500
This depends on the amount of energy in a sound wave
What is loudness?
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