Vocabulary
Air Masses & Weather Front
Instruments
Severe Weather
Misc.
100
winter storm with strong winds and large amounts of heavy blowing snow
What is blizzard?
100
Hot and Dry air masses
What is tropical continental?
100
Measures temperature
What is thermometer?
100
wind speed when a tropical storm becomes a hurricane
What is 74mi/hr?
100
scientists who study weather conditions to provide forecasts
What is meteorologist?
200
strong storm with rain, lightning, and thunder
What is thunderstorm?
200
form over Arctic areas
What is Polar air masses?
200
instruments that is used to collect data from the top of the troposphere
What are weather balloon and satellite?
200
Cloud that thunderstorms come from
What is cumulonimbus?
200
measures weather
What is radar?
300
boundary between two air masses that collide
What is front?
300
warm air mass moves into an area of cooler air
What is warm front?
300
measures air pressure
What is barometer?
300
cause frostbites and hypothermia
What is blizzard?
300
overflow in water
What is flood?
400
force of the weight of air pressing down on a unit of area
What is air pressure?
400
Cool and Moist air masses
What is polar maritime?
400
measures wind speed
What is anemometer?
400
1st phase of a hurricane before it becomes a tropical storm.
What is tropical depression?
400
cold air mass moves into an area of warmer air
What is cold front?
500
comparison of the actual amount of water vapor in the air to the amount of water vapor that would be in the air if it were saturated
What is relative humidity?
500
boundary between two air masses that are not moving against each other
What is stationary front?
500
measures relative humidity
What is hygrometer?
500
another name for hurricane
What is typhoon?
500
amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
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