Storms
Weather Factors
The Atmosphere
Weather Patterns
Weather Maps
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Storm
What is a violent disturbance in the atmoshpere?
100
Continental Air Mass
What is a dry air mass that forms over land?
100
Cumulus
What is a cloud that form less the 2km above the ground?
100
Sea breeze.
What is the flow of air from an ocean or lake to the land?
100
Temperature map
What is a type of map that shows the average amount of energy of motion in a substance?
200
Hurricane
What is a tropical storm that has winds of 119 kph or higher?
200
Polar air mass
What is a cold air mass that forms near Earth's poles?
200
Cirrus
What is a cloud that forms above 6 km called?
200
Land breeze.
What is a flow of air from land to a body of water?
200
Precipitation map
What is type of map shows the amount and probablility of water returning to Earth's surface?
300
Tornado
What is a rapidly whirling, funnel-shaped cloud that reaches down from a storm cloud to touch Earth's surface?
300
Occulded front
What is a warm air front that is cut off from the ground by the cooler air beneath it?
300
Stratus
What is a cloud that forms in flat layers called?
300
Global wind
What is a wind that blows steadily from a specific direction over long distances?
300
Wind speed map
What is a type of map that displays the direction and velocity of winds in a specific area?
400
Flash Flood
What is a sudden violent flood that occurs within a few hours, or even minutes, during a heavy rainstorm?
400
El Nino
What is an event which winds on the Pacific shift and push warm surface water toward the coast of South America called?
400
Less dense, rises, moves more slowly
What characteristics does warm air display?
400
Clouds, storms, and rain
What kind of weather forms at a warm front?
400
Isobars
What are lines on a map joining places that have the same air pressure?
500
Storm surge
What is a dome of water that sweeps across the coast where a hurricane lands?
500
Tropical Air Mass
What is a warm air mass that forms in the tropics and has low air pressure?
500
Vortex
What is a center of a storm in which the air swirls around it?
500
Violent thunderstorms
What kind of weather forms at cold fronts?
500
Isotherms
What are lines on a map joining places that have the same temperature?
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