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What process of the water cycle forms clouds?
What is condensation.
a large body of air with similar temperature and moisture.
An Airmass
What is it called where two air masses meet?
A front
What tool measures air pressure?
A barometer.
How long does a tornado usually last?
5-10 minutes
What powers the water cycle?
What is the sun?
Where could we go to find a maritime tropical air mass?
The Caribbean, Bahamas, Florida....
A curved line with red half circles on it is the symbol for a ?
A warm front
What is the condition of the atmosphere at a particular place and time.
Weather
Where do most tornadoes occur?
The Midwest of the United States (Tornado Alley)
rain, sleet, snow, and hail are examples of?
What is precipitation.
Where could we go to find a continental tropical airmass?
The desert
The weather forecast indicates that the weather will be turning cold very quickly with the chance of a tornado. What type of front would cause this?
A cold front.
What is used to measure wind speed?
An Anemometer
When is hurricane season?
During the Fall and late Summer.
What causes the spin of a hurricane?
The Coriolis Effect
1. What do the words maritime, continental, polar, and tropical mean?
2. Describe the continental tropical (cT) airmass.
1. wet (humid), dry, cold, and warm.
2. Dry and warm (desert)
This type of front brings many days of cloudy, wet weather.
A stationary front.
What tool is used to measure the humidity in the air?
A hydrometer
What is the name of the scale that scientists use to rank tornadoes?
The Fujita scale.
This cloud is large, dark and high in the sky. It is associated with bad weather such as thunderstorms.
What is cumulonimbus.
What causes differences in air pressure around the world?
The uneven heating of the Earth. Warm air rises at the equator (low pressure). Cold air sinks at the poles (high pressure).
A warm air mass meets and rises above a cold air mass. What type of front would this create?
A warm front.
What would increase air’s ability to hold more water vapor?
An increase in temperature
What conditions would cause a hurricane to stop?
It would need to hit cooler water or land.