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Air Masses
Tornadoes
Hurricanes
Vocab
Miscellaneous
100
Air masses which form on land
What are continental
100
A funnel cloud that touches the ground.
What is a tornado?
100
The center of a hurricane.
What is the eye?
100
A large body of air which takes on the characteristics of the area over which it forms.
What is an air mass?
100
The type of severe storm which causes the most damage.
What is a hurricane?
200
Air masses which form over water.
What are maritime?
200
The scale used to measure tornado strength.
What is the Fujita scale?
200
Severe thunderstorms surrounding the eye of a hurricane.
What is the eye wall?
200
A mound of water piled up along the shoreline by a hurricane.
What is a storm surge?
200
When rivers overflow their banks this is called ________.
What is flooding?
300
Air mass with cool dry air.
What is continental polar?
300
The difference between a tornado watch and a tornado warning.
What is likely to form vs. already formed?
300
The difference between a hurricane watch and a hurricane warning.
What is 24-36 hrs vs 24 hrs?
300
The basis for categorizing tornado and hurricane strength.
What is wind speed?
300
The reason we hear thunder after we see lightning.
What is light travels faster than sound?
400
Air masses with warm, humid air.
What are maritime tropical?
400
The type of storm during which tornadoes form.
What is a thunderstorm?
400
The scale used to measure hurricane strength.
What is the Saffir-Simpson scale?
400
A tornado which forms over water.
What is a waterspout?
400
Sound made when superheated air contracts.
What is thunder?
500
Air masses with very cold, dry air.
What are continental arctic?
500
The area of the country where most tornadoes form.
What is Tornado Alley?
500
The 2 reasons hurricanes die out.
What is moving over land or cold water?
500
The conditions in the eye of a hurricane.
What is calm, no wind or rain?
500
An advantage and a disadvantage of predicting severe weather.
What is saving lives & property; cry wolf, loss of business etc.