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Unit 4 Storms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Air that is uniform in temperature and humidity | air mass |
| Air masses that are cold | polar air mass |
| Air masses that are warm | tropical air mass |
| Air masses that develop over land | continental air mass |
| Air masses that develop over water | maritime air mass |
| Cold air masses that develop over water | polar maritime air mass |
| Cold air masses that develop over land | polar continental air mass |
| Warm air masses that develop over water | tropical maritime air mass |
| Warm air masses that develop over land | tropical continental air mass |
| When two air masses meet, what develops? | a front |
| Type of front that develops when two air masses are not moving | a stationary front |
| Type of front that develops when warmer air takes the place of colder air on the ground | a warm front |
| Type of front that develops when colder air replaces warmer air on the ground | a cold front |
| Type of front that develops when a warm air mass gets trapped between two cold air masses | an occluded front |
| What do most fronts produce? | precipitation |
| What is one of the most important elements of weather? | wind |
| Cooler air over the water that is moving toward land | sea breeze |
| Cooler air over the land that is moving toward the water | land breeze |
| Movement of air from the north or south toward the equator | trade winds |
| Very high, fast moving currents of air where jets often fly | jet streams |
| Thunderstorm come from what type of cloud | cumulonimbus |
| Thunderstorms are most frequent during what season? | summer |
| Tornado is the Spanish word for what? | thunderstorm |
| What is a spiraling cloud that does not touch the ground called? | funnel cloud |
| What are funnel clouds that form over water called? | water spouts |
| How are tornados ranked? | the Fujita-Pearson Tornado intensity Scale or F-scale |
| Because so many tornadoes have occurred in the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa the area has been give what nickname? | Tornado Alley |
| What does the National Weather Service use to track storm movement? | Doppler Radar |
| What is the largest fiercest storm in the world? | Hurricane |
| What is the official meteorological term for hurricanes? | Tropical Cyclones |
| 90 percent of hurricanes form where? | Western Pacific Ocean |
| Hurricanes that form in the Northwest Pacific Ocean are called? | typhoons |
| Hurricanes that form in the Indian Ocean are called? | cyclones |
| Most Hurricanes form near what part of the earth? | the equator |
| Wind that begins to circulate around and center and storm cell come together it is called? | tropical disturbance |
| When wind speeds reach 25 mph a tropical disturbance become this? | tropical depression |
| When a tropical depression has winds reaching 39-73 mph it is called? | tropical storm |
| The center of a hurricane | the eye of the storm |
| Much of the damage a hurricane does is from this/ | storm surge |
| Hurricanes categories are measured by what two things | wind speed and storm surge |
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