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Air masses and frons
Air pressure
weather maps
storms
100
The layer that weather occurs in and where temperature decreases with altitude.
What is Troposphere layer?
100
When a cold air mass pushes a warm air mass above it sometimes creating short powerful storms.
What is cold front?
100
The pressure system that brings average, nice weather.
What is high pressure system?
100
Represented by the number over the dew point
What is temperature?
100
The calmest part of a hurricane.
What is eye?
200
The layer that is mostly made up of hydrogen.
What is Exosphere layer?
200
When two air masses result in non moving clouds that last for days
What is Stationary front?
200
The tool that measures air pressure.
What is barometer?
200
When the wind speed symbol is shaped like a flag.
What is high wind speed? (48-52 knots)
200
Two types of storms with a front created by polar air and moister from the Gulf of Mexico, North Atlantic, and Pacific Ocean.
What are blizzards and ice storms?
300
The layer of the atmosphere where temperature increases with altitude and is not the Thermosphere.
What is Stratosphere layer?
300
Two air masses resulting in cirrus and high-low clouds.
What is Warm front?
300
The faster the speed the lower the air pressure.
What is Bernoulli's Principle?
300
When the dot/ circle on the weather map is fully colored.
What is 100% cloud coverage?
300
The pressure system Hurricanes, Winter storms and Thunderstorms don't have in common.
What is High pressure system
400
The coldest atmospheric layer that most meteors burn in. Temperature decreases with altitude.
What is Mesosphere layer?
400
Where temperature and humidity are similar in a large volume of air.
What is Air mass?
400
The force applied by the air in the atmosphere.
What is air pressure?
400
When a L is used on a map you can infer this.
What are clouds and precipitation.
400
A storm that is caused by a cumulus cloud building up into a cumulonimbus cloud.
What is thunderstorm?
500
The layer that heats the Stratosphere from inside of it.
What is Ozone layer?
500
Th type of air mass determined by whether air masses form over wet or dry land.
What is Moister?
500
Resulting in warm moist air and cloudy rain.
What is low pressure system?
500
The symbol you would expect to see representing air pressure during a tornado.
What is L?
500
Other words for hurricane when they form over the Indian Ocean or the western Pacific Ocean.
What is Typhoon or Cyclone?