Severe Weather
Type of severe storm that sometimes results from severe thunderstorms.
What is a tornado?
A huge body of air with similar temperature and humidity.
What is an air mass?
The area where two or more air masses meet.
What is a weather front?
The main reason we have weather.
What is the sun?
This severe weather brings strong winds, thunder, lightning, large hail, and heavy rains.
What are severe thunderstorms?
Air masses that form over land.
What are continental air masses?
A weather front where cold air overtakes warmer air.
What is a cold front?
Current caused when warm air rises and cooler air falls.
What is convection?
Weather in the eye of a hurricane
What is a calm air?
An air mass that forms over water near the equator.
What is a maritime tropical air mass?
Type of weather front that occurs when two fronts do not move past each other.
What is a stationary front?
Clouds form through the water cycle process known as...
What is condensation?
Used to help predict weather
What is weather patterns?
A continental polar air mass has these two characteristics.
What is dry and cold?
Brings rain, gusty winds and severs storms
What is a cold front?
Rain isn't the only thing that forms thanks to this part of the water cycle.
What is precipitation?
Warmer than usual ocean water causes this type of severe weather.
What is a hurricane?
A cT air mass.
What is continental tropical?
Type of air mass where warm air moves in to replace colder air.
What is a warm front?
Wind is caused by differences in this.
What is air pressure?