Air Masses
Fronts
Storms
Tornado/Hurricane
100
In addition to this, air masses have the same temperature and air pressure.
What is humidity?
100
The kind of weather usually found along a front.
What is precipitation?
100
Don't touch anything that can conduct electricity.
What is advise for a thunderstorm.
100
The basement.
What is safest place to be during a tornado?
200
An air mass that forms over large areas of land.
What is a continental air mass?
200
The front producing a quick change in weather including thunderstorms followed by clear skies.
What is a cold front?
200
The type of clouds in which thunderstorms form.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
200
The two types of air that tornadoes need to form.
What are cold, dry air and warm, humid air?
300
An air mass that forms south of 50 degrees north latitude.
What is a tropical air mass?
300
The front that may produce days of clouds and precipitation.
What is a stationary front?
300
When air is rapidly heated and suddenly expands.
What is thunder?
300
A tornado that occurs over water.
What is a waterspout?
400
The prevailing westerlies and the jet stream.
What are the winds that move air masses in the U.S.?
400
The front that moves, but moves slowly producing clouds or rain depending if it is dry or humid.
What is a warm front?
400
Cloud-to-cloud or cloud-to-ground.
What are different types of lightening?
400
Warm moist air over warm water.
What is the energy source for a hurricane?
500
The two air masses that are responsible for creating most of the tornadoes in the U.S.
What are continental polar and maritime tropical air masses?
500
Barometric pressure may go up and down if this front gets stalled overhead.
What is a stationary front?
500
A violent disturbance in the atmosphere.
What is a storm?
500
The "dome" of water that comes ashore with a hurricane.
What is a storm surge?
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