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Clouds
Precipitation/Clouds/
Air Masses
Air Masses and Their Movements/
Storms
Storms
Predicting Weather
100
Two conditions are required for cloud formation: cooling of the air and
What is the presense of particles?
100
Any form of water that falls from clouds is called
What is precipitation?
100
When a warm air mass and a cold air mass meet and neither can move the other, what is the resulting front?
What is a stationary front?
100
True or False: Tornadoes form in the same kind of cloud as thunderstorms. This can be a two part question if your answer is false.
What is true?
100
Collecting of weather data in the last 40 years had been improved mostly by
What is balloons and satellites?
200
Very high feathery clouds are called
What are cirrus clouds?
200
An ice pellet larger tahn 5 millimeters in diameter that forms during a thunderstorm is called a
What is a hailstone?
200
A major difference between cyclones and anticyclones is
What is the direction of their winds?
200
What is measured using the Saffir-Simpson scale?
What is hurricane strength?
200
True or False: On a weather map, isobars join places that have the same air pressure. This could be a two part question if you answer is false. You must also provide the correct replacement word.
What is true?
300
Large clouds that produce thunderstorms are called
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
300
True or False: The temperature at which evaporation begins is known as the dew point? This is a two part question. To get full points you must answer both correctly.
False; condensation
300
What kind of weather would a continental tropical air mass that formed over northern Mexico bring to the southwestern United States? Please describe the weather using temperature and humidity terms. Such as warm, moist, dry, hot, etc....
What is hot and dry?
300
The four main kinds of storms are
What are winter storms, thunderstorms, tornadoes, and hurricanes.
300
True or False: Weather ballons in the exosphere carry cameras that are used to photograph Earth's surface, clouds, and storms. This could be a two part question if you answer false. Then you must provide the correct word replacement.
What is satellites? False.
400
Clouds forms when water vapor in air becomes liquid water in the process called...
What is condensation?
400
This air mass is cold and dry and blows into the United States from Canada.
What is continental polar?
400
True or False: The low air pressure of anticyclones is often associated with storms and precipitation. This is a two part question if your answer is false. To get full credit you must give the correct word replacement.
What is false; cyclones
400
Which storms are ranked on the Enhanced Fujita scale?
What are tornadoes?
400
This is a snapshot of conditions as a particular time over a large area.
What is a weather map?
500
Clouds that form near the ground are called
What is fog?
500
This is a fast moving front that often brings thunderstorms follwed by clear skies.
What is a cold front?
500
Hurricans usually form over...
What is warm ocean water?
500
True or False: A hurricane could damage houses on one street and leave those on a neighboring street in perfect condition.
False: What is a tornado?
500
What weather term has the same word part as isotherm?
What is thermometer?