Weather Patterns Ch3 Word Scramble
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| air mass | a huge body of air that has similar temperature, pressure, and humidity throughout |
| tropical | a warm air mass tha forms in the tropics and has low air pressure. |
| maritime | a humid air mass that forms over oceans |
| occluded | cut off, as the warm air mass at an occluded front is cut off from the ground by cooler air beneath it. |
| continental | a dry air mass that forms over land |
| cyclone | a swirling center of low pressure |
| polar | a cold air mass that forms north of 50 degrees north latitude or south 50 degrees south latitude and has high air pressure. |
| front | the area where air masses meet and do not mix |
| anticyclone | a high-pressure center of dry air |
| storm | a violent disturbance in the atmosphere (troposphere) |
| tornado | a rapidly whirling, funnel-shaped cloud that reaches down from a storm cloud to touch Earth's surface, usually leaving a destructive path. |
| storm surge | a dome of water that sweeps across the coast where a hurricane lands |
| lightning | a sudden spark, or energy discharge, caused when electrical charges jump between parts of a cloud or between a cloud and the ground. |
| hurricane | a tropical storm that has winds of 119 kilometers per hour or higher: typically about 600 km across. |
| evacuate | to move away temporarily |
| flash flood | a sudden violent flood that occurs within a few hours, or even minutes, of a heavy rainstorm. |
| meteorologist | scientists who study the causes of weather and try to predict it. |
| El Nino | An event that occurs every two to seven years in the Pacific Ocean, during which winds shift and push warm surface water toward the coast of South America; it can cause dramatic climate changes. |
| isobar | lines on a map joining places that have the same air pressure. |
| isotherm | lines on a map joining places that have the same temperature. |
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