Question | Answer |
which 2 gasses make up most the atmosphere | nitrogen and oxygen |
the layers of the atmosphere are... | troposphere, stratosphere,mesosphere, exosphere |
__________ air pressure at sea level | 14.7 |
as you increase in altitude you decrease in.. | air pressure |
air has _____ and takes up __________ | weight space |
strong wind | big differents in air pressure |
Barometer | mesure air pressure |
little wind | little differents in air pressure |
the 3 clould formactions are | lifting frontal convection |
winds that blow between 30 and 60 degrees | prevailing westerlies |
blow between 30 north to 30 south | trade winds |
anemometer | tool that measures wind speed |
wind/weather vane | measure wind direction |
the center of a tornado and hurrican is called the | eye |
huricansform over what water | tropical water |
a hurrican swirls | counterclockwise |
fujita scale | a system to measure the strength of a tornados |
a violet thunder storm is a _________ | supercell |
updraft | warm,humid air that rises into the clouds |
sientest who studys the weather sre known as | medierologist |
weather forcasters are able to track storm with electronics like | sablite |
when a cold air mass and a warm air mass meet it creates a _____ | front |
the national weather service have a system of powerful _____ used to colect weather data and make weather maps | radar |
fronts,air pressure system and temperature | simbles |
an electric current passing between cloulds caused by a thunderstorm | lightning |
a spining funnel shaped clould part of a storm called a | tornado |
an ocean formed storm, the most powerful on earth, is a ________ | hurrican |
a vertical tube of spinning air | msocyclon |
a rating system for the strength of tornado | fugita scal |
_________________ ____________ fuels a hurrican | tropical water |