Atmosphere
Weather Fronts
Clouds
Weather Prediction
Thunderstorm/
Hurricane/ Tornado
100
The number of layers.
What is four?
100
The number of weather fronts.
What is four?
100
A thin, wispy cloud.
What is a cirrus cloud?
100
Measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
100
A violently rotating column.
What is a tornado?
200
A huge body of air that has a fairly uniform temperature and humidity.
What is air mass?
200
The border between two air masses that collide.
What is a front?
200
A form of percipitation.
What is rain? What is snow? What is sleet? What is hail?
200
A prediction of what the weather will be like in the future.
What is forecast?
200
Where the most violent weather of a hurricane occurs.
What is the eye wall?
300
The layer of the atmosphere in which nearly all life extists.
What is the troposphere?
300
Thunderstorms often occur with this type of front.
What is cold front?
300
Nimbo and nimbus mean ____________________.
What is percipitation producing cloud?
300
The number of days meteorologists can make fairly accurate forecasts.
What is five days?
300
The stretch of area from Northern Texas to North Dakota is called _______________ _________________.
What is Tornado Alley?
400
The angle at which at area receives the most energy from sunlight.
What is 90 degrees?
400
This front often brings steady rain and cloudy skies that stay in an area for several days.
What is warm front?
400
The three main types of clouds.
What is stratus, cirrus, and cumulus?
400
This map shows data about recent weather conditions across a large area.
What is a weather map?
400
The type of storm a hurricane starts as.
What is a tropical storm?
500
Two factors that affect the amount of energy Earth's surface receives from the sun.
What is angle and distance?
500
This type of front occurs when a cold front takes over a warm front.
What is an occluded front?
500
This occurs with nimbostratus clouds.
What is thunderstorms?
500
An arrangement of symbols and numbers that show the weather conditions recorded at a weather station.
What is a station model?
500
The instrument most useful for identifying conditions under which a tornado will form.
What is Doppler radar?
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