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It is warmer than ice pellets?
What is sleet?
100
A device used to measure temperture.
What is a thermometer?
100
Cold, dry air.
What is a continental polar air mass?
100
A low pressure areas with winds moving toward the center.
What is a cyclone?
100
This is generally dry and clear.
What is weather from an anticyclone?
200
They are colder than sleet and formed higher up in the cloud.
What are ice pellets?
200
A device that measures air pressure.
What is barometer?
200
It would bring hot and dry weather.
What is continental tropical air mass?
200
A high pressure area where the winds move away from the center.
What is an anticyclones?
200
This is generally wet and cloudy.
What is weather associated with a cyclone?
300
Cumulus, stratus, and cirrus.
What is three types of clouds?
300
A device that measures relative humidity.
What is psychrometer.
300
It brings warm and moist weather.
What is a maritime tropical air mass?
300
A violent disturbance in the atmosphere.
What is a storm?
300
South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.
What are the states that make up Tornado Alley?
400
The two conditions required for cloud formation.
What is the cooling of air and the presence of particles?
400
A device that measures wind speed.
What is anemometer.
400
When a warm air mass overtakes a cold air mass.
What is a warm front?
400
It is formed in the same kind of cloud as thunderstorms.
What is a tornado?
400
They typically form over warm ocean water near the earth’s equator.
What are hurricanes?
500
It has weather that is generally wet and cloudy.
What is a cyclone?
500
It would enable a meteorologist to follow the path of an approaching thunderstorm.
What is radar weather data?
500
In the continental United States, air masses are commonly moved by these.
What are the prevailing westerlies and jet streams?
500
The part of a tornado that touches Earth’s surface.
What is funnel-shaped cloud?
500
In a first floor bathroom, a room with no windows, or the basement of a well-built building.
What is one of the best places to seek protection during a tornado?