Air Masses
Severe Weather
Severe Weather
Weather Fronts
Weather tools and vocabulary
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Air masses that form over oceans tend to bring this kind of air to a new region.
What is moist
100
Storm that can be 100 miles to 500 miles wide and can last weeks.
What is hurricane?
100
Storm surges are the biggest hazard from these storms.
What is a hurricane?
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This front is the cause of thunderstorms. Cold air pushing under a warm air mass.
What is a cold front
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Instrument used to measure wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
200
Large body of air that has the same characteristics throughout.
What is air mass
200
A storm that has rain, wind, lightning and sometimes hail.
What is Thunderstorm?
200
Hurricanes form over these.
What is warm, tropical oceans?
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When warm air gets trapped and pushed up between two cold fronts.
What is occluded front
200
Water that is pulled further onto the shore during a hurricane due to high winds and low pressure.
What is storm surge?
300
They are two qualities used to classify an air mass.
What is moisture and temperature
300
The most common type of severe weather.
What is Thunderstorm?
300
It's the most violent and shortest-lived severe storm.
What is tornado
300
It may last for several days, and leaves behind warmer temperatures and a high moisture content.
What is a warm front
300
Shows the direction of the wind.
What is weather or wind vane?
400
They are the possible temperatures of an air mass, indicated by P, T or A.
What is Polar, Tropical or Arctic
400
The 2 types of severe weather that have heavy rain.
What is thunderstorm and hurricane.
400
It's the scale currently used to measure damage done by tornadoes.
What is Fujita (EF) scale?
400
A red line with red half circles on it.
What is symbol for warm front
500
Air mass that forms over land.
What is a continental
500
A narrow storm that can last a few minutes to about one hour.
What is a tornado.
500
Blue line with blue spikes on it point in the direction the front is traveling.
What is Symbol for cold front.
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Air is dense and molecules are close together and it is cause by cool or cold air. On weather map has a red H for a symbol.
What is high pressure.
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