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What process of the water cycle forms clouds?
What is condensation.
A large body of air with similar temperature and moisture. These occur when air sits in one place for a long period of time.
An Airmass
What is it called where two air masses meet?
A front
What tool measures air pressure?
A barometer.
What type of storm is initially formed before both tornados and hurricanes are created.
What is Thunderstorm
What powers the water cycle and therefore much of the earths weather?
What is the sun?
Where could we go to find a maritime tropical air mass?
The Caribbean, Bahamas, Florida....
A curved line with red half circles on it is the symbol for a ?
A warm front
What is the condition of the atmosphere at a particular place and time.
Weather
Where do most tornadoes occur?
The Midwest of the United States (Tornado Alley)
rain, sleet, snow, and hail are examples of?
What is precipitation.
Where could we go to find a continental tropical airmass?
The desert
The weather forecast indicates that the weather will be turning cold very quickly with the chance of a tornado. What type of front would cause this?
A cold front.
What tool is used to measure wind speed?
An Anemometer
What type of air pressure system is associated with hurricanes? (High or low pressure)
What is Low pressure
What causes the spin of a hurricane?
The Coriolis Effect
What do the words maritime, continental, polar, and tropical mean?
wet (humid), dry, cold, and warm.
This type of front brings many days of cloudy, wet weather.
A stationary front.
What is the difference between weather and climate.
Weather is the conditions of what if going on at a certain point in time. Climate is the average weather conditions over a long period of time.
What is the name of the scale that scientists use to rank tornadoes?
The Fujita scale.
This cloud is large, dark and high in the sky. It is associated with bad weather such as thunderstorms.
What is cumulonimbus.
Describe a continental polar air mass.
Forms over land, is dry, and cold.
A warm air mass meets and rises above a cold air mass. What type of front would this create?
A warm front.
What would increase air’s ability to hold more water vapor?
An increase in temperature
What conditions would cause a hurricane to stop?
It would need to hit cooler water or land.