a powerful rotating column of wind that extends down from a cumulonimbus storm cloud correct answers tornado
What cloud is usually associated with storms? correct answers Cumulonimbus Cloud
Tornadoes form when strong rotating wind is uplifted by ______________ in the storm cloud. correct answ...
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a powerful rotating column of wind that extends down from a cumulonimbus storm cloud correct
answers tornado
What cloud is usually associated with storms? correct answers Cumulonimbus Cloud
Tornadoes form when strong rotating wind is uplifted by ______________ in the storm cloud.
correct answers updrafts
Where do most tornadoes happen? correct answers the Midwest: Tornado Alley
What air masses have to come together to form a tornado? correct answers cT, mT, cP
What's the calmest part of a hurricane? correct answers the eye
Is the eye of a hurricane Low Pressure or High Pressure? correct answers Low Pressure
Typical locations of a hurricane: correct answers begins over Atlantic Ocean (near Equator),
loses power in SE coasts
a large tropical storm system made up of powerful winds and heavy rains that circle around a
low pressure center correct answers hurricane
a storm of heavy rain, lightning, and thunder correct answers thunderstorm
What are the weather conditions of a thunderstorm? correct answers heavy winds with updrafts
and downdrafts within the cumulonimbus cloud
What are the weather conditions of a tornado? correct answers rain, lightning, thunder, and wind
(funnel cloud)
What are the weather conditions of a hurricane? correct answers heavy rain and strong winds that
last for several days
Typical locations of a thunderstorm: correct answers Midwestern and Southeastern United States
a violent disturbance in the atmosphere, caused by differences in temperature and pressure
correct answers storm
What will cause more damage: a large tornado or a fast tornado? correct answers fast
the condition of the atmosphere at a particular time and place correct answers weather
the average weather conditions of an area over a long period of time (usually 30 years) correct
answers climate
, a warm current that flows out of the Gulf of Mexico and circulates the Atlantic Ocean correct
answers Gulf Stream
a cold Pacific current that moves south along the west coast of North America correct answers
California Current
Lines of latitude are the distance from the __________ measured in degrees. correct answers
Equator
the elevation of land above sea level correct answers altitude
features on the surface of the earth correct answers topography
rain occurs on one side of the mountain due to the cooling of warm, moist air correct answers
Rain shadow
Land near large bodies of water have (milder or more extreme) temperatures. correct answers
milder
Low pressure= (good or bad) weather correct answers bad
High pressure= (good or bad) weather correct answers good
Humidity will be (lower, higher) when there's clear skies. correct answers lower
Humidity will be (lower, higher) when there's rain. correct answers higher
List the order of these storms: tropical __________, tropical _____, hurricane. correct answers
depression, storm
True or False: Air is made of nothing. correct answers FALSE!
We live in this atmospheric layer. It means "turning" or "changing", weather takes place, and
temperature gets warmer. correct answers Troposphere
The next atmospheric layer after the troposphere; means "layer" or "spreading out", the ozone
absorbs the ultraviolet radiation and jet planes fly at this height. Temperature gets warmer.
correct answers Stratosphere
The next atmospheric layer after the stratosphere; means "middle", meteoroids burn up in this
layer, leaving meteor trails, temperature gets colder. correct answers Mesosphere
The next atmospheric layer after the mesosphere; means "heat", extends into space, Aurora
Borealis/ The Northern Lights occur in this layer; temperature gets hotter. correct answers
Thermosphere
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