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ch. 17 vocab. words
Question | Answer |
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Swirling center of low air pressure. | Cyclone |
A high-pressure center of dry air. | Anticyclone |
Scientists who study the cause of weather and try to predict it. | Meteoroligist |
Lines on a map joining places that have the same air pressure. | Isobar |
Side of mountains that faces the oncoming wind. | Windward |
Downwind side of mountains. | Leeward |
Violent disturbance in the atmosphere. | Storm |
Sudden spark, or energy discharge, caused when electrical charges jump between parts of a cloud or between a parts of a cloud and the ground. | Lighting |
Rapidly whirlin, funel-shaped cloud that reaches down from a cloud to touch Earth's surface, usually leaving a destructive path. | Tornado |