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Academic vocab
Term | Definition |
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Air mass | a large body of air throughout which temperature and moisture content are similar |
front | the boundary between air masses of different densities and usually different temperatures. |
jet stream | a narrow band of strong winds that blow in the upper troposphere |
thunderstorm | a usually brief, heavy storm that consists of rain,strong winds, lightning, and thunder. |
hurricane | a severe storm that develops over tropical oceans and whose strong winds of more than 119 km/h spiral in toward the intensely low-pressure storm center. |
lightning | an electric discharge that takes place between two oppositely charged surfaces, such as between a cloud and ground,between two clouds,or between two parts of the same cloud. |
storm surge | a local rise in sea level near the shore that is caused by strong winds by from a storm, such as those from a hurricane |
thunder | the sound caused by the rapid expansion or air along an electrical strike. |
tornado | a destructive. rotating colomn of air that has very high wind speeds and that may be visible as a funnel shape cloud. |