If the time between a lighting flash and the sound of thunder is 3 seconds, how far has sound traveled?

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Chapter 11

Earth and Space Science

Question	Answer
Which type of front involves two air masses where an existing air mass rise to make way for incoming air mass?	Cold
Name 3 terms that are associated with tornados	Waterspouts, strong cold fronts, and updrafts
Which of the violent storms have the greatest wind speed?	Tornado
Global winds that drive weather in most of the continental United States?	Prevailing westerlies
If the time between a lighting flash and the sound of thunder is 3 seconds, how far has sound traveled?	equation is seconds x 1km/3 seconds= thunder
Which of the following is not associated with a single cumulonimbus cloud?	Hurricane
What is caused by land absorbing the sun's energy more rapidly than water?	Sea breeze
What wind is a type of chinook?	Fall wind
What is a occluded front?	When warm air mass is trapped between two colliding colder air masses
when winds seasonally reverse direction, particularly in South Asia	Monsoon
Air generally moves from regions of higher pressure to	Lower pressure
Name three types of storms	Thunderstorms, tornados and hurricanes
The air with the cyclonic system in the northern hemisphere moves in what direction?	Counterclockwise
Winds tend to curve over great distance because	Coriolis effect
What is geostrophic winds	High-altitude winds that move in paths parallel to isobars
Explain extra tropical cyclones	hurricanes that form in the middle latitudes are often less violent
The huge ways that form out in the ocean and perceive the arrival of a hurricane are called?	Storm swells
List the greatest destructive effects found in tornadoes.	Horizontal wind and updraft
Forms in the tropics, water is warm, far away and up from the equator that the Coriolis effects can begin the rotation. They form over the ocean rising over the land. The ocean eggs or little friction on their cyclonic circulation and provide the source	hurricane
Air masses from these areas would result in cool humid weather and form high pressured, humid weather.	Maritime polar
Areas where continental polar masses form	Continental polar (Canada)
What is maritime tropical	Air masses formed over ocean, produce and sustain hurricanes.
Name region that generates continental tropical air masses	Africa
Air forms these source regions contains very little moisture and extreme low temperatures.	Continental Arctic
When a warm air mass is trapped between the lighting colder air masses it is called a	Occluded front
Most interactions among air masses cause?	Precipitation
Where are there no significant global winds?	At the poles
What weather is not as evenly distributed as hurricanes?	Tornados
Buildings explode in the tornado because of?	The winds not the air pressure
Where is the pressure of a hurricane lower in the eyes or the outer part?	The eye
True or false - heat lightning is different from lightning I can both be seen and heard?	False
Can hurricanes form over land?	No
What is the difference between the Chinnook and foehn winds?	The location

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