air masses
fronts
weather maps
Severe Weather
miscellaneus
100

Cold, dry air affecting the northern United States in winter is called ______.

What is polar continental?  
100

When a rapidly moving cold air mass overtakes a slow-moving warm air mass, the result is a(an) ______.

What is a cold front? 
100

This type of weather is associated with a high pressure system.

What is clear weather?
100

Large clouds that often produce thunderstorms are called this.  

What are cumulonimbus clouds? 
100

On a hot, summer day, large cumulonimbus clouds are forming. This type of weather is coming.

What is a thunderstorm? 
200

The prevailing westerlies, the major wind belts over the continental United States, generally push air masses from ______.

What is west to east? 
200

When a warm air mass and a cold air mass meet and neither can move the other, the result is a(an) ______.

What is a stationary front? 
200
This is represented by a curve of blue triangles. 
What is a cold front? 
200

This is what any form of water that falls from clouds is called. 

What is precipitation? 
200

Scientists who study weather and try to predict it are called ______.

What is a meteorologist? 
300

Air has more moisture over tropical oceans than over cold oceans. This statement explain why this particular weather event forms there.

What is a hurricane? 
300

Rising warm air and sinking cold air especially along a cold front can form this.

What is a thunderstorm? 
300
This is represented by purple half circles and triangles.
What is an occluded front? 
300

A funnel-shaped cloud that touches Earth’s surface is called a ______.

What is a tornado? 
300

“Atlanta received 2 inches of rain today.”  This describes ________. 

What is weather? 
400

As residents of Georgia, our weather is often influenced by air masses that start over the Gulf of Mexico. This is the name for that type of air mass.

What is tropical humid?
400
A cold front brings this type of weather.
What are thunderstorms, heavy rain or snow?
400
This is a detailed representation of the weather of a particular city on a map. 
What is a weather station model? 
400

Hurricanes typically form over ______.

What are warm tropical waters? 
400

The average, year-after-year conditions of temperature, precipitation, winds, and cloud in an area are known as its ______.

What is climate? 
500

Cold air masses that form at high latitudes are called this.

What are Polar? 
500

_________ fronts bring drizzly rain followed by warmer temperatures.

What is a warm front?  
500
This is represented on a map by a large circle that has certain fractions of the circle shaded in.  
What is cloud cover? 
500
This is the type of pressure the thunderstorms, hurricanes and tornadoes have in common.  
What is low pressure? 
500
A tornado's strength is described by this scale.
What is the Enhanced Fujita Scale?