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matmosphere
aureolis effect
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A huge body of air that has somewhat uniform temperature and humidity and covers hundreds or thousands of square kilometers of the earth's surface | Air mass |
| A body of water or land with uniform humidity and temperature and low winds on which an air mass forms and receives its characteristics. | Source region |
| By which meteorologists name an air mass this is warmer than the surface over which it passes | Warm air front or mass |
| this air mass is cooler than the surface over which it passes | Cool air front or mass |
| A weather front that does not move for a period of time | Stationary front |
| A line of violent thunderstorms | Squall line |
| A warm air mass trapped between two cold air masses | Occluded front |
| A six month rainy season in tropical regions | monsoon |
| When a higher pressure air mass is pushed in the direction of a lower pressure air mass | pressure gradient force |
| Winds produced by a combination of pressure gradient force, gradient force and the Coriolis effect | geostropic winds |
| Low pressure areas in the atmosphere | Cyclones |
| high pressure areas in the atmosphere | Anti cyclones |
| rapid current of winds high above the earth | jet stream |
| Air moving from the low pressure area of the shore to the high pressure area of the land during the day | Sea breeze |
| Air moving from the low pressure area of the land to the high pressure area of the sea at night | Land breeze |
| Rising less dense mountain air rising over the denser valley air | Valley breezes |
| The denser air flowing down the slopes into the valleys | Mountain breeze |
| the surface winds that are formed by the Coriolis effect at the equator | trade winds |
| Winds taht are deflected to the east and north | prevailing westerlies |
| Dense air above the poles flowing toward the equator and deflected to the west | polar easterlies |
| Winds that circle the globe at the poles | doldrums |
| 30 degree latitude winds that circle the globe caused by descending air | hhorse latitudes |
| Low pressure area caused by the prevailing westerlies rising over the polar easterlies | subpolar low |
| falling cold air at the north and south poles | polar highs |
| the most common type of violent storm | thunderstorm |
| High forming cumulo-nimbus clouds | thunderhead |
| electrical discharge between clouds or a cloud and the ground | lightning |
| the first stream of lightning that comes down in steps toward the earth | stepped leader |
| a path that is used repeatedly by lightning | return strokes |
| when a stepped leader lightning branches off | forked lightning |
| narrow funnel cloud extending down from a cumulonimbus cloud | tornado |
| tornado over water | waterspout |
| Giant cyclonic windstorms that form over tropical or subtropical oceans | hurricanes |
| hurricanes in the Indian Ocean | cyclones |
| higher than average water level caused by the low pressure of a storm | storm surge |
| conductors used to protect buildings by draining electrical currents into the ground | lightning rods |
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maddy reilly
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