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Weather Maps
Clouds
Hurricanes I
Fronts
Weather facts
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What is a triangle with a dot?
What is the symbol for rain?
100
This is what the evaporated water gathers on.
What is dust?
100
The number of categories in a hurricane.
What is 5?
100
When two air masses meet, you get this.
What is a front?
100
Used to collect weather data from up in space.
What is a satellite?
200
Shows the wind speed as 10 knots or 5
What is a feather?
200
When water vapour or droplets gather on something.
What is a condensation?
200
"Q", "U", "X", "Y" and "Z"
What are the letters not used when naming hurricanes?
200
This front brings cooler temperatures and brief, heavy storms.
What is a cold front?
200
The calm part of a hurricane, is calm and like nothing is happening.
What is the eye?
300
The letter "R" with a really jagged leg, with a dot.
What is the symbol for thunderstorms with severe lightning and rain?
300
These are the puffy clouds, like cotton balls.
What is a cumulus cloud?
300
Hurricane season usually falls through these months.
What is June till November?
300
This one doesn't move that fast and will hang around an area for a while.
What is a stationary front?
300
snow, rain, hail, sleet are all this:
What is precipitation?
400
Has the symbol of a curved line with circles and triangles on the same side.
What is an occluded front?
400
This cloud is low laying, and is like a ceiling.
What is a stratus cloud?
400
Scale used to measure the strength of a hurricane.
What is the Saffir-Simpson Scale?
400
This type happens when warm air pushes down on the cold air, forcing it to leave.
What is a warm front?
400
Causes hurricanes to swirl.
What is the Coriolis effect?
500
Lines that show the pressure in a given area.
What is an isobar?
500
Jets leave this behind in the sky.
What is a contrail?
500
This category has winds from 111-130 mph.
What is a category 3.
500
Can end up being either a cold front or a warm front.
What is a stationary front?
500
When hurricanes push and move large masses of water.
What is a storm surge?