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Air Masses & Fronts
Storms
Predicting the Weather
Vocabulary
Misc.
100
Type of air mass that brings cool, humid weather to the west coast of the United States.
What is maritime polar?
100
The sudden discharge of electricity in a storm.
What is lightning?
100
Scientists who study the causes of weather and try to predict it.
Who are meteorologists?
100
Maritime
What is wet?
100
Good conductor of electricity.
What is a metal?
200
Two cool air masses cute a warm air mass off.
What is an occluded front?
200
Type of clouds tornadoes form from.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
200
The circle part of the station model represents...
What is the amount of cloud coverage?
200
Continental
What is dry?
200
Poor conductor of electricity.
What is plastic, rubber, wood?
300
Type of front that forms when a warm air mass overtakes a slowly moving cold air mass.
What is warm front?
300
Storms that produce the highest winds.
What are hurricanes?
300
The line coming off the circle of a station model.
What is wind direction (starting from)?
300
Polar
What is cold?
300
High-pressure center of dry air.
What is an anticyclone?
400
___________ front forms when a rapidly moving cold air mass moves under a slowly moving warm air mass.
What is a cold front?
400
A rotating funnel-shaped cloud with high winds that extends from a storm cloud to Earth's surface is....
What is a tornado?
400
The end of the line coming off the circle on the station model (sometimes short lines or no lines or triangles).
What is the wind speed?
400
Tropical
What is warm?
400
Summers in the Southwest are hot and dry because of what air masses?
What is continental tropical.
500
The area where two air masses meet.
What is a front?
500
A tropical storm with winds of 119 kilometers or higher is called....
What is a hurricane?
500
The numbers on the station model (left and then right, in that order).
What is temperature and air pressure (atmospheric pressure)?
500
Lines joining places that have the same temperature.
What are Isotherms?
500
The characteristics of an air mass are determined by....
What is temperature and humidity?