Convection Zones
This is the number of convection zones are found on Earth?
what is 3
This is generally known as moving air.
What is wind?
This is a dry air mass.
What is continental?
All storms are just areas of this. The water cycle is also an example of it.
What is convection?
This is when hurricane season begins and ends.
What is June 1st-November 30th?
This is the convection zone found between 60 and 90 degrees latitude.
What is the Polar Convection Zone?
This states that global winds on Earth bend or curve because of the Earth's rotation.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
This air mass will bring warm, humid conditions with possible precipitation.
What is a Maritime Tropical?
These are the fronts thunderstorms can form from.
What are cold and occluded fronts?
This is a storm with 38-73 mph winds.
What is a Tropical Storm?
This is the lines that measure the distance from the equator.
What are latitude lines.
This global wind is responsible for moving hurricanes towards the United States.
What are the Trade Winds?
This air mass is found in deserts regions where its hot and dry.
What is continental tropical?
Most people are killed in thunderstorms by this one characteristic.
What is lightning?
This is the strongest part of a hurricane.
What is the Eye Wall?
This is one way the trade winds affect the weather.
What is moving hurricanes towards the United States?
These global winds move cold air around the north and south poles.
What are the Polar Easterlies?
This air mass is a moist air mass.
What is a Maritime air mass?
The scale used to measure the intensity of tornadoes.
What is the EF Scale (enhanced Fujita Scale)?
This is the calmest part of a hurricane?
What is the Eye?
This is the convection reason the United states lies in and what it's name means.
What is temperate and comfortable?
This global wind will bring down Polar Continental air masses into the United States.
What is the Polar Jet Steam?
This will form when two different air masses meet.
What is a front or weather front?
This is what you must do to stay safe from a tornado.
What is going to the lowest level of the building to an interior room and cover your head?
These winds will turn hurricanes away from the United States.
What are the Prevailing Westerlies?