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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Huge body of air that has similar temperature, pressure, and humidity through out | air mass |
| A warm air mass that forms in the tropics and has low air pressure | tropical |
| A cold air mass that forms north of 50 north latitude or south of 50 south latitude and has high pressure | polar |
| humid air mass that forms over oceans | maritime |
| area where air masses meet and don't mix | front |
| dry air that forms over land | continental |
| Cut off, as the warm air mass at an occluded front is cut off from the ground by cooler air beneath it. | occluded |
| A swirling center of low air pressure. | cyclone |
| A high-pressure center of dry air | anticyclones |
| Scientists who study the causes of weather and try to predict it. | meteorologists |
| An abnormal climate event that occurs every 2 to 7 years in the Pacific ocean, causing changes in winds current and weather patterns that can lead to dramatic climate changes | El Nino |
| lines on a map joining places that have the same air pressure | isobar |
| lines on a map joining places that have the same temperature | isotherm |
| violent disturbance in the Atmosphere | storm |
| sudden spark, or energy discharge, caused when electrical charges jump between parts of a cloud or between a cloud and the ground | lighting |
| rapidly whirling, funnel-shape cloud that reaches down from a storm cloud to touch Earth's surface, usually leaving a destructive path | tornado |
| tropical storm that has winds of 119km per hour or higher typically about 600km across | hurricane |
| dome of water that sweeps across the coast where a hurricane lands | Storm surge |
| to move away temporarily | evacuate |
| sudden, violent flood that occurs within a few hours,or even min of heavy rainstorm | Flash flood |
| year-after-year conditions of temperature, precipitation, winds, and clouds am area | climate |
| side of mountain that forces the oncoming wind | windward |
| downwind side of mountains | leeward |