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Air Masses and Fronts
Hurricanes
Katrina
Tornadoes
Weather Maps
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A body of air that takes on the characteristics of the land below.
What is an air mass?
100
How we categorize Hurricane strength
What is wind speed?
100
The year that Hurricane Katrina hit the U.S.
What is 2005?
100
The scale we use to categorize tornadoes.
What is the Enhanced Fujita scale?
100
A blue line with triangles
What is a cold front?
200
A front that brings thunderstorms, followed by cooler temperatures
What is cold front?
200
Where hurricanes form.
What is near the equator?
200
These broke, causing the major damage to New Orleans
Who are levees?
200
The type of front that can possibly cause a tornado
What is a cold front?
200
A large capital H
What is high pressure?
300
The 2 characteristics that categorize air masses.
What is temperature and moisture?
300
The direction that hurricanes spin in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is counter clockwise?
300
The category that Hurricane Katrina was when she hit New Orleans
What is a category 3 hurricane?
300
When the rotating column of air gets powerful enough to get the cumulonimbus cloud rotating.
What is a funnel cloud
300
A red line with half-circles on one side.
What is a warm front?
400
A front that brings long periods of precipitation
What is warm front?
400
This creates low air pressure, causing a hurricane to gain strength.
What is warm water?
400
The hurricane simulation they ran 1 year before Katrina hit.
What is Hurricane Pam?
400
The rotating column of air that is caused by warm air quickly rising through cold air.
What is a mesocyclone?
400
A purple line with triangles and half-circles on the same side
What is occluded front
500
When 2 cold air masses push against a warm air mass, causing short periods of showers and/or storms.
What is occluded front?
500
List the order of storms that grows into a hurricane (there are 4)
What is tropical disturbance, tropical depression, tropical storm, and then hurricane?
500
The number of people that died during Hurricane Katrina (within 100)
What is 1833?
500
A much stronger cumulonimbus cloud that can cause a tornado.
What is a super cell?
500
Lines all over the map with numbers on them.
What is air pressure?