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atmospere and fronts
| 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 |