What is the boundary between a cold and warm air mass?
Front
100
Current short term variations in the atmosphere are referred to as ____________.
What is weather?
100
What does a severe weather watch mean?
The conditions are right for severe weather, but are not occurring.
100
What type of air mass is formed over the ocean near the equator?
Maritime Tropical
200
temperature
What is a thermometer?
200
What symbols are used for a stationary front?
half moons and triangles on the opposite side of a line.
200
The temperature at which air is saturated is ________.
dew point
200
What does a severe weather warning mean?
severe weather is occurring
200
cold, wet
What is polar maritime
300
wind speed
What is anemometer?
300
What type of front is a cold air mass coming in and forcing up a warm air mass?
cold front
300
When altitude increases what happens to pressure?
decreases
300
What classification of tornado on the Fujita scale does the most damage?
F5
300
really cold
What is artic?
400
precipitation and wind speed
What is doppler?
400
What type of weather is associated with a cold front?
intense precipitation and thunderstorms
400
When water droplets in a cloud combine, become to heavy, and fall to the ground as rain, snow, sleet, or hail, we are experiencing what?
What is precipitation?
400
Typically wind speeds in tornadoes are faster than wind speeds in hurricanes, hurricanes inflict more damage overall. Why is this?
Hurricanes are larger, hurricanes last longer, hurricanes are associated with flooding.
400
warm, dry
What is tropical continental?
500
Cloud height and atmospheric temperature
What is satellite image?
500
To keep track of high and low pressure areas, wether maps are drawn with lines connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure. These lines are called?
isobars
500
Areas of low pressure usually have what type of weather?