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Why You Fronting?
How Will You Measure That?
Get Your Head Out of The Clouds!
A Storms Coming!
Winds and Winds
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When a rapidly moving cold air mass overtakes a slow-moving warm air mass, what is the result?
A cold front
100
Who are Meteorologists?
Scientists who study weather and try to predict it
100
What large clouds produce thunderstorms?
Cumulonimbus clouds
100
What is a funnel-shaped cloud that touches Earth's surface?
Tornado
100
Winds are caused by differences in what?
Air Pressure
200
When a warm air mass is replacing a cold air mass the result is what?
Warm front
200
Isobars are lines that join places with the same what?
Air pressure
200
What are very high, feathery clouds called?
Cirrus Clouds
200
What is one of the best hiding places during a Tornado?
A basement of a well-built building
200
How are local winds different from global winds?
Local winds are caused by unequal heating
300
When a pair of air masses meet and neither of which is strong enough to replace the other the result is what?
Stationary front
300
Isotherms are lines that join places with the same what?
Temperature
300
Describe Stratus clouds
Layered clouds that often cover much of the sky and are dull and grey
300
What type of storm forms over warm ocean water?
Hurricane
300
What is the Coriolis Effect?
Earth's rotation making global winds curve
400
On weather maps, a line with alternating half circles and triangles on the same side is called what?
Occluded front
400
What does an Anemometer measure?
Wind Speed
400
Which type of air rises and which type of air sinks?
Warm air rises and cold air sinks
400
The eye of a Hurricane is what?
Calm
400
What is a Sea Breeze?
A breeze blowing toward the land from the sea during the day
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Which front is the most complex?
Occluded front
500
What measures air pressure?
A Barometer
500
What are the doldrums like?
Little to no wind
500
In which order does thunder and lighting occur?
Lighting comes before thunder
500
What is a Land Breeze?
A breeze blowing to the sea from the land during the night