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Air Everywhere
What did you say?
100
A boundary that is formed between two air masses where the warm air moves into an area of cooler air.
What is a warm front?
100
A very large storm with heavy rain, thunder, and lightning.
What is a thunderstorm?
100
It carries a package of instruments that records data about temperature, air pressure, and humidity.
What is a weather balloon?
100
A large body of air that has the same characteristics throughout.
What is an air mass?
100
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How many wind belts are there?
200
This takes place when a cold front overtakes a warm front.
What is an occluded front?
200
A storm that spirals and can be hundreds of miles wide. It also has an "eye".
What is a hurricane?
200
A map that shows data about recent weather conditions across a large area.
What is a weather map?
200
The weight of air pressing down on an area.
What is air pressure?
200
A prediction of what the weather will be like in the future.
What is a forecast?
300
The border between two air masses that collide.
What is a front?
300
A intense wind storm usually forms within a thunderstorm.
What is a tornado?
300
An arrangement of symbols and numbers that show the weather conditions recorded at a weather station.
What is a station model?
300
The moisture in the air.
What is humidity?
300
An air mass has 30% humidity- this is how much more that air mass could hold.
What is 70% humidity?
400
This occurs when the edge of a cold mass collides with a warm air mass.
What is a cold front?
400
The stage of hurricane development when winds of a tropical depression reach a speed of 63 mph.
What is a tropical storm?
400
A map that includes station models and onfo about fronts and centers of high and low pressure.
What is surface model?
400
The movement of air from high to low pressure.
What is wind?
500
This occurs when the boundary of two air masses do not move.
What is a stationary front?
500
What kind of storm was "Katrina" and "Isaac"?
What is a hurricane?
500
A person that studies weather.
What is a meteorologist?
500
The currents of air that sailed ships to other countries in the past.
What are tradewinds?
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