a large body of air that has the same air pressure and temperature throughout it's volume.
What is an air mass
100
This is when a warm air mass overtakes a cold air mass
What is warm front
100
This weather phenomenon usually has the strongest winds and takes a haphazard path on the ground.
What is a tornado
100
This measures air pressure
What is a barometer
100
This is a spacial feature that has so much gravity light cannot escape from it.
What is a blackhole.
200
This air mass brings warm wet weather to both the Florida and Southern California
What is maritime Tropical air (mT)
200
this is when cold air mass overtakes warm air
What is cold front
200
This weather event is usually caused by large thunderstorms off the coast of Africa.
What are hurricanes
200
This measures wind speed
What is an anemometer
200
He discovered that planets move in Ellipses
Who is Kepler
300
This brings cold and dry air to America.
What is continental polar (cP)
300
This front occurs when two cold air masses collide lifting the warm air up into the sky
What is an occluded front
300
This means that a severe weather phenomenon has been spotted in your area.
What is a weather warning
300
These connect lines of equal air pressure
What is an isobar
300
Name the sixth planet in our solar system
What is Saturn
400
This bring warm dry air to most parts of american but unfortunatly it only works in the summer time.
What is continental Tropical.
400
This is a front where hot and cold air meet but do not move
What is a stationary front.
400
this can reach temperatures hotter than the sun when it is created
What is lightning
400
This measures precipitation by bouncing radio waves off of it
What is doppler radar
400
He discovered that galaxies were moving away from us
Who is hubble
500
List the 4 main types of air masses
What are cT, mT, cP, and mP
500
When a bend forms in a cold front, it begins the process of creating an area of low pressure with rotating winds that move toward the rising air of the central low-pressure region - a storm known as
What is mid latitude cyclone
500
Which stage of a thunderstorm means that it is weakening or ending.
What is the dissipation stage.
500
This is attached to the bottom of a weather balloon, it has a computer chip and instruments that measure humidity, temperature, wind speed and direction, and etc. in the upper atmosphere
What is a radiosonde
500
Name the seven continents
What is North America, South America, Asia, Africa, Antarctica, Europe,and Australia