Question | Answer |
A huge body of air that has similar temp, pressure, and humitidy thoroughout | Air Mass |
A warm air mass that forms in the tropics and has low air pressure. | tropical |
A cold air mass that forms north of 50° north latitude or south of 50° south latitude and has high air pressure. | Polar |
A humid air mass that forms over oceans. | Maritime |
The area where air masses meet and do not mix | front |
A dry air mass that forms over land. | continental |
Cut off, as the warm air mass at an occluded front is cut off from the ground by cooler air beneath it. | Occluded |
A swirling center of low air pressure | cyclones |
A high-pressure center of dry air. | Ancticyclones |
Scientists who study the causes of weather and try to predict it. | metearologists |
An abnormal climate event that occurs every 2 to 7 years in the Pacific Ocean, causing changes in winds, currents, and weather patterns that can lead to dramatic climate changes | El Nino |
Lines on a map joining places that have the same air pressure. | Isobar |
Lines on a map joining places that have the same temperature. | Isotherm |
A violent disturbance in the atmosphere | Storm |
A sudden spark, or energy discharge, caused when electrical charges jump between parts of a cloud or between a cloud and the ground. | lightning |
A rapidly whirling, funnel-shaped cloud that reaches down from a storm cloud to touch Earth's surface, usually leaving a destructive path. | tornando |
A tropical storm that has winds of 119 kilometers per hour or higher; typically about 600 kilometers across | hurricane |
A dome of water that sweeps across the coast where a hurricane lands | Storm Surge |
To move away temporarily | evacuate |
A sudden, violent flood that occurs within a few hours, or even minutes, of a heavy rainstorm. | flash flood |
the average year after year condition of temperature, winds, and cluds in an area | climate |
the side of mountains that face the oncoming winds | wind ward |
the down wind side of mountain | leeward |