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Cubangbang #120903
Cubangbang's 8th Ch. 11 Atmosphere Stack #120903
| Ch. 11 Definition | Ch. 11 Vocab |
|---|---|
| Which type of front involves two air masses where an exisiting air mass rises to make way for the incoming air mass? | Cold front |
| The weather in your area stays virtually the same for entire week. What kind of front probably exists beteen nearby air masses? | Stationary front |
| A type of mountain breeze | Fall wind |
| Breeze caused by land absorbing the sun's energy more rapidly than land. | Sea breezes |
| The global winds that drive weather in most of the continental US are | Prevailing westerlies |
| Not associated with a single cumulonimbus cloud | Hurricane |
| If the time between a lightning flash and the sound of thunder is 3 seconds, how far has the sound traveled? | 1 km or 0.6 miles |
| Which kind of violent storm has the greatest wind speed? | Tornado |
| Not associated with tornadoes | Saffir-Simpson scale |
| Front formed when a warm air mass is trapped between two colliding colder air masses | occluded front |
| Winds that seasonally reverse direction, particularly in Southeast Asia | Monsoon |
| Air generally moves from regions of higher pressure regions to regions of | lower pressure |
| The air within a cyclonic system in Northern Hemisphere moves | counterclockwise |
| Winds tend to curve over great distances because of this | Coriolosis effect |
| High altitude winds that move in paths parallel to isobars | Geostrophic winds |
| An air mass associated with an anticyclone would tend to have | Cooler temperatures and Lower humidity |
| Three types of storms discussed in the text | thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes |
| Greatest destructive effects found in tornadoes | Horizontal wind & updraft |
| A large body of air that has fairly uniform conditions | Air mass |
| The boundary between two air masses | Front |
| Occurs when warmer air mass is replacing colder air mass | Warm front |
| A line of violent thunderstorms | Squall line |
| Occurs between the doldrums and the horse latitudes | Trade winds |
| A low pressure belt located in the region of the equator | Doldrums |
| Often has an anvil shaped top | Thunderhead |
| Cloud-to-ground or cloud-to-cloud electrical discharge | Lightning |
| Most interactions among air masses cause | Precipitation |
| The Coriolosis effect increases when? | as latitude increases |
| If there is no wind then there air experiences none of this. | Coriolosis effect |
| Pressure in the eye of is lower than in the outer part of the hurricane. | True |
| In Japan, hurricanes are called | Typhoons |
| There are no significant global wind patterns where | at the poles |
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