6TH GRADE the 3rd chapter of the third book of 2007-2008 "weather and climate"
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| air mass | A huge body of air that has similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure at any given height
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| tropical | warm air masses that form in the tropics and have low pressure
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| polar | cold air masses that form north of 50 degrees north latitude and 50 degrees south latitude and have very high pressure
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| maritime | air masses that form over oceans.
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| continental | air masses that form over land and have little exposure to large amounts of moisture from large bodies of water
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| cyclone | a swirling center of low pressure. they revolve inward.
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| anticyclones | high-pressure centers of dry air. they revolve outward.
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| thunderstorm | a small storm often acompanied by heavy precipitation and frequent thunder and lightning.
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| lightning | a sudden spark, or electrical discharge as these charges build up between parts of a cloud. between nearby clouds, or between the cloud and the ground.
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| tornado | a rapidly whirling, funnel-shaped cloud that reaches down from a storm cloud to touch earth's surface.
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| hurricane | a tropical cyclone that has winds of 119 kilometers per hour or higher
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| storm surge | a "dome" of water that sweeps across the coast where the hurricane occurs.(imagine a hemisphere of water above you ontop of the land like a house or the top of a church. that is why when it falls it becomes very dangerous and it can destroy buildings,and
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| evacuate | to move away temporarily
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| meteorologist | scientists who study the causes of weather and try to predict it
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| isobars | lines joining places on the map that have the same air pressure
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| isotherms | lines joining places on the map that have the same tempature
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