This is a large body of air that has the same properties as the surface over which it develops.
What is an air mass?
100
This front develops when a less dense, warm air mass slides over a departing air mass.
Precipitation occurs over a wide area.
What is warm front?
100
This is a violently rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground.
What is a tornado?
100
This is a are large, swirling, low pressure systems that form over tropical oceans.
What are hurricanes?
100
This is the transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves.
What is radiation?
200
The boundary between two different air masses is called a...
What is a front?
200
In this front, a cold air mass pushes under a warm air mass and forces the warm air aloft along a steep front.
What is cold front?
200
When do tornadoes occur most frequently?
What is between March-June?
200
What does a hurricane use a fuel?
What is warm water?
200
This is the transfer of energy that occurs when molecules bump into one another.
What is conduction?
300
This results from the rapid heating of the air around a bolt of lightning.
What is thunder?
300
This front results from two cool air masses merging and forcing warmer air between them to rise.
What is an occluded front?
300
Tornadoes are classified as....
What is strong, weak, and violent?
300
List the three parts of a hurricane.
What is the eye, eye wall, and rain bands?
300
This is the transfer of heat by the flow of a heated material.
What is convection?
400
When current flows between regions of opposite electrical charge,....flashes
What is lightening?
400
This front occurs when pressure differences cause a warm or cold front to stop moving.
What is a stationary front?
400
The difference in wind directions and speed is called...
What is wind shear?
400
This is at the center of the storm. Winds are light and skies are only partly cloudy, sometimes even clear, in this area.
What is the eye?
400
This is a narrow belt of high speed winds that blow in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere. Separates warm air from cold air. Reason why when we travel to the west it takes a shorter amount of time.
What is the jet stream?
500
This is the movement of air caused by differences in air pressure.
What is wind?
500
What are the four types of fronts?
What are hot, cold, stationary and occluded?
500
What is the area of the US that has the most tornadoes? What states does this area include?
What is tornado alley?
What are Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas?
500
The progression of a hurricane from start to full classification as a hurricane.
What is tropical disturbance, tropical depression, tropical storm, and hurricane?
500
The three global wind patterns are...
What are Polar easterlies, Westerlies and Trade winds