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