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Severe Weather
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Weather Fronts
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100

This weather is a violent rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground 

What is a tornado?

100
These clouds are thin, high, feathery clouds.
What are cirrus clouds?
100
Name the type of air masses would affect Hawaii.
What is the maritime tropical air mass?
100
This front is the cause of thunderstorms. Cold air pushing under a warm air mass causing the warm air to rise quickly.
What is a cold front?
100

The weather instrument that measures wind speed is called a

What is called anemometer?

200

This weather rotates in a counter-clockwise direction around an "eye" in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise direction in the Southern Hemisphere. 

What is hurricane?

200
Gray, layered clouds that often cover much of the sky.
What are stratus clouds?
200
This air mass brings warm, dry air.
What is Continential tropical?
200
This front consists of alternating red and blue lines with the triangles and half-circles pointing in different directions.
What is a stationary front?
200

This weather instrument measures air pressure.


What is a barometer?

300

Winds push from east to west and push wetter weather to the Pacific region; drier weather in the west coast of the US.

What is the La Nina?

300
These clouds are white puffy clouds that look like cotton balls.
What are cumulus clouds?
300
Name the 4 types of air masses.
What are Polar Maritime, Tropical Maritime, Tropical continental and Polar continental?
300
This front leaves behind warmer temperatures, usually has a higher moisture content, and results in clouds and light precipitation.
What is a warm front?
300

Continental tropical air masses are formed over...

What is the equator?

400

Water near the equator warms up to a higher temperature, which causes the air above it to warm up too. This warmer air and water moves east

What is El Nino?

400
Clouds are formed from?
What is water vapor that condenses?
400
Prevailing westerly winds move in this direction.
What is from west to east?
400
A red line with red half circles on it that point in the direction it is traveling.
What is the symbol for warm front?
400

A fast flowing, narrow, tunneling air current in the atmosphere.

What is the jet stream?

500

Explain the difference between weather and climate.

Climate is the average weather conditions of an area over many years. Weather is the condition of the atmosphere at a certain place and time.

500
List the types of precipitation that falls to the ground. Name at least 3.
What is snow, rain, sleet or hail?
500
A cold and warm air mass meet but neither has the force to push the other one.
What is a stationary front?
500
Two cold air masses converge on a warm air mass..
What is an occluded front?
500

Amount of moisture in the air is

What is an humidity?