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Air Masses
Storms
Predicting Weather
Clouds
Currents
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A large section of the troposphere that has the same weather
What is an air mass?
100
The four major types of storms
What are thunderstorms, hurricanes, tornadoes, and winter storms?
100
________________________ is an attempt to make accurate predictions about future weather.
What is weather forecasting?
100
There are 3 main types of clouds
What are cirrus, stratus, and cumulus?
100
Areas near ___________ tend to have more moderate temperatures due to the uneven heating of land and water.
What are oceans?
200
Air masses are controlled by
What are patterns of heating and cooling?
200
________________ are violent whirling winds sometimes visible as a funnel cloud.
What is a tornado?
200
A weather _________ is useful for making predictions
What is a map?
200
_______________ clouds are high level clouds that are usually formed from ice crystals due to altitude.
What are cirrus?
200
Weather happens because of the _________ from the sun.
What is energy?
300
Changes in ______________ indicate the passing of high and and low pressure systems.
What is air pressure?
300
Tornadoes have spiraling high winds and extremely ___________ pressure.
What is low?
300
Weather systems generally move from ________ to __________ across the United States.
What is west to east?
300
Both _________ and ________clouds are low level.
What are stratus and cumulus?
300
____________________ currents move heat through the atmosphere and oceans.
What are convection currents?
400
Differences in air pressure cause _____________ and ______________.
What are wind and weather?
400
Thunderstorms are caused by rapidly ____________ air.
What is rising?
400
____________ range weather forecasting is difficult.
What is long range?
400
_____________ clouds are neutral weather clouds.
What are cumulus?
400
_____ __________ are a fairly narrow zone of strong winds in the upper atmosphere thta usually travel from west to east over the middle latitudes.
What are jet streams?
500
Storms occur when air masses
What is run into each other?
500
____________________ are huge, rotating storms that form over the ocean near the equator.
What are hurricanes?
500
__________ ________________ compares the amount of water vapor in the air with the amount of water vapor that the air COULD hold at that temperature.
What is relative humidity?
500
____________________ clouds are layered clouds that usually bring widespread drizzle or rain.
What are stratus?
500
The ________ __________, the strongest of the known currents, is a powerful, warm surface current in the North Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Gulf Stream?