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Symbols
Storms
Fronts
Measurements
Predicting the Weather
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An uppercase H
What is the symbol meteorologists use to show an are of high pressure?
100
Thunderstorms
What is the kind of storm that forms in a cumulonimbus cloud?
100
A cold front
What is a front that overtakes a warm front?
100
An anemometer
What is a tool used to measure wind speed?
100
A Meteorologist
What kind of scientist predicts the weather?
200
An uppercase L
What is the symbol meteorologists use to show an area of low pressure?
200
Tornado
What is a kind of storm that is a funnel cloud and has rotating winds?
200
A warm front
What is front that overtakes a slow-moving cold front?
200
The Fujita scale
What is the scale used to measure tornado strength?
200
Doppler radar
What is the kind radar used to predict storms?
300
Triangles
What is the symbol meteorologists use to show a cold front?
300
Cyclone
What is storm with rotating winds?
300
A stationary front
What is a front that is formed when 2 fronts meet but neither can move the other?
300
The Saffir-Simpson scale
What is the scale used to measure hurricane strength?
300
A weather map
What is a map that used to predict weather?
400
Half-circles
What is the symbol meteorologists use to show a warm front?
400
Floods
What is storm that causes many things to go underwater?
400
A Maritime Polar front
What is a front that brings cold, wet weather such as rain and snow?
400
Isotherms
What is used to measure similar temp on weather maps?
400
A weather map symbol
What is a symbol used to predict the weather a few days in the future?
500
Purple triangles and half-circles
What is the symbol meteorologists use to show an occluded front?
500
Hurricane
What is storm with rotating winds and has calm low pressure center called an "eye"?
500
An occluded front
What is a front that is formed when a warm air mass is caught between 2 cooler air masses and is "occluded" or cut off from the ground?
500
Isobars
What is used to measure similar air pressure on weather maps?
500
Computers
What do most meteorologists use to predict the weather?