Hurricanes
Tornados
Cloud Formation
Air Masses
Detecting Weather
100
The center of a hurricane.
What is the eye of the hurricane?
100
Tornados usually last this long.
What is a few minutes?
100
A low pressure system brings this type of rainfall.
What is light rain over a longer period of time?
100
This air mass forms over Siberai and the Arctic.
What is the arctic air mass?
100
This report is created by gathering data from the upper atmosphere.
What is an upper air report?
200
Hurricane Irma reached this travel speed.
What is 16 mph?
200
When updrafts and downdrafts in a storm become faster they may start to _________.
What is rotate?
200
A low pressure system has more or less dense air molecules.
What is less dense molecules?
200
Maritime Polar Air Masses bring this type of air.
What is cold and humid?
200
A person who studies ands predicts the weather is called this.
What is a meteorologist.
300
The eye of the hurricane has this type of pressure.
What is high pressure in the eye of the hurricane?
300
Tornados are classified as on a scale of ____ to ____.
What is F0 to F5?
300
The first stage of a storm formation is called this.
What is the cumulus stage?
300
This air mass brings warm humid temperatures.
What is maritime tropical air mass?
300
This model helps predict weather patterns through complex mathematical formulas.
What is a computer model?
400
Tornadoes can form at the center of a hurricane.
What is false?
400
The scale to measure a tornado is called this.
What is the Fujita scale?
400
Thunderstorms most often occur when this front moves into an area.
What is a cold front?
400
Air masses do not change as they move over different land and water masses. True or false.
What is false? Maritime air masses can dry out and become continental as they travel over land and polar air masses could warm as they move south.
400
This radar uses sound to detect amount s of precipitation as well as movement of small particles to determine wind speed.
What is doppler radar?
500
Winds must reach this speed to be classified as a hurricane.
What is 117 mph?
500
A tornado can be called a tornado when this occurs.
What is the funnel of air meets the ground?
500
When a warm front is caught between two cold fronts this type of front occurs.
What is an occluded front?
500
Air mass temperature is driven by this force of nature.
What is the sun?
500
Isobars show fast wind speed when they are this spread apart.
What is isobars that are very close together indicates fast wind speed?
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