Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Cyclones
Tropical storms form over this type of water.
What is Warm ocean water?
A boundary that separates two airmasses of different densities.
What is a front?
This absorbs the sun's energy, therefore warming itself.
What is the Earth's surface?
This is the term for how much water is evaporated into the air.
What is humidity?
This type of tropical storm forms in the Pacific Northwest.
What are typhoons?
This type of air pressure brings rainy weather and clouded skies.
What is low pressure?
This happens when the density of air is balanced.
What is "air stops rising"?
A large body of air in the lower atmosphere that has similar conditions, including air pressure.
What is an air mass?
This air is necessary to make the clouds of a tropical storm.
What is Humid air?
This occurs when cold air collides with a warm air mass.
What is a cold front?
When the pressure is high, the rivers are __.
What is dry?
Atmospheric winds that form in narrow bands of high-speed winds that flow east to west.
What are Jet streams?
Ocean water needs to be this warm to form a tropical storm.
What is 80 degrees F?
This forms when two air masses push against each other, but neither is powerful enough to move the other.
What is a stationary front?
When the pressure is low, the rivers will __.
What is flow?
A group of winds that occur between the same latitude lines.
What is a wind belt?
Winds have to travel this many k/hr before becoming a hurricane.
what is 119 k/hr?
This forms when a warm air mass gets caught between two cold air masses.
What is an occluded front?
This occurs when air moves areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure.
What is wind?
The bending of wind around the Earth due to the Earth's rotation.
What is the Coriolis Effect?