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Definitions Hurricanes Clouds Fronts Thunderstroms
Air that flows in relation to the earth’s surface,
generally, horizontally
What is Wind?
A violently rotating column of air in contact with and
extending between a convective cloud and the
surface of the earth.
What is a Tornado?
An extensive body of air throughout which the
horizontal. Temperature and moisture
characteristics are similar.
What is an air mass?
The sound emitted by rapidly expanding gases along the channel of a lightening discharge.
What is thunder?
The state of the atmosphere at a
specific time and with its respect to its effect
on life and human activities.
What is weather?
A forming tornado that has not yet
touched the ground.
What is a funnel cloud?
The part of a hurricane at the center where the
weather is calm.
What is the eye?
When the depression strengthens to at least
39mph.
What is a tropical storm?
Hurricanes take energy from WHAT to become stronger?
What is the ocean?
The rotation of tropical storms are due to
what?
What is the Coriolis Effect?
High cloud group that is usually white
and predict fair weather.
What is a Cirrus cloud?
High cloud group that are sheet like thin clouds that usually cover the entire
sky?
What is a cirrostratus
cloud?
High cloud group that are small
rounded puffs that usually appear in
long rows.
What is a cirrocumulus cloud?
Anytime air expands because of a drop in
pressure, it gets _____
What is cooler?
When warm air cools, water leaves the vapor that is in the warm water and
condenses into _____
What is liquid?
A front where a cold air mass is pushing into a
warmer air mass.
What is a cold front?
A front where a warm air mass is pushing
into a colder air mass.
What is a warm front?
A front that forms when a cold front or warm front
stops moving.
What is a stationary front?
A front where a cold front follows right
behind a warm front.
What is a warm front?
In the Northern Hemisphere, air moves _____ around a high
pressure.
What is clockwise?
Hail forms in what kind of cloud?
What is a Cumulonimbus cloud?