Fronts
Convection
Symbols
Hurricanes
Storms
100
cold fronts
What type of front brings lightening and thunderstorms?
100
a vortex
What shape makes convection in a low pressure system?
100
25 knots
What is the wind speed for figure 2?
100
a hurricane
What is a severe tropical storm that forms Atlantic Ocean, and sometimes strikes the United States?
100
a low pressure system
What type of pressure system produces storms?
200
city A
In figure 7, which city is warmer?
200
earthquakes
Which event is least likely to be caused by heat convection in the lower atmosphere? thunderstorms hurricanes earthquakes tornados
200
mostly cloudy
What is the cloud coverage for figure 3?
200
Africa
Of the western coast of what continent do Hurricanes form?
200
a thunderstorm
Heat trapped in the lowest level of the atmosphere creates convection currents that transfer energy and produce what type storm?
300
thunderstorms
What weather will occur after this front has passed through an area? (see fig. 1)
300
evaporation
This step of the water cycle often accompanies convection?
300
50 knots
What is the wind speed for figure 4?
300
a storm surge
When a hurricane slows down and drops tons of water over land, what is it called?
300
a waterspout
What is a tornado that occurs over water?
400
west
In the stationary front in figure 6, which way was the warm front traveling before it hit a cold front?
400
the Northern Hemisphere
In what hemisphere do vortexes travel counter-clockwise?
400
from the southeast
What is the wind direction for figure 4?
400
Cyclones
What are hurricane-like storms that occur in the Pacific?
400
rain
What precipitation is produced by a warm front at 55 degrees Fahrenheit?
500
a stationary front
What type front is associated with drizzle?
500
a land breeze
What is the night-time wind created every day at the beach?
500
65 knots from the northwest
What is the wind speed and direction for figure 5?
500
typhoons
What are hurricane-like storms that occur in the Indian Ocean?
500
a tornado
What is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud?
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