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What type of energy comes from eating food?
Chemical energy
What type of energy comes from the sun?
Solar Energy
If a roller coaster is at the top of the hill, what type of energy is it?
Potential energy
What type of energy is getting a baseball with a bat?
Kinetic Energy
If you switch on the computer, what type of energy are you using?
If an air mass forms over land, would it be continental or maritime?
Continental
If an air mass is labeled MT, what is the temperature and humidity?
Warm and Humid
What type of storm is characterized by a funnel shaped cloud?
Tornado
What storm forms over the ocean and moves in a circular pattern?
A Hurricane
What is the name of the cloud that produces thunderstorms?
Cumulonimbus
Which weather front happens when a warm air mass pushes up and over a cold air mass?
Warm Front
Which weather front occurs when a cold air mass pushes under a warm air mass
Cold Front
What is the weather front where the cold and warm mass meet and stop moving?
Stationary Front
Which clouds are you mid level spread out clouds. They are known to form blanketed layers.
Stratus
Which clouds look like cotton balls in the sky?
Cumulus
What is the energy transformation of an electrical circuit that turns on a fan?
Electrical --> Mechanical Kinetic
What is the energy transformation when you use moving water to power a generator?
Kinetic --> Electrical
What type of energy transformation when you release a stretched rubber band?
Potential --> Kinetic
Which layer of the atmosphere is closest to the earth and has our weather?
Troposphere
What are the forms of Precipitation?
Rain, Snow, Sleet and Hail
Energy can not be __________ or __________ only transformed.
Created; Destoryed
Air masses are described using two characteristics, what are those characteristics?
Humidity and Temperature
What are the percentages of Nitrogen and Oxygen in the atmosphere?
78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen
What type of heat transfer occurs through touching an object?
Conduction
What type of simple machine is hammer?
Lever