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Study Notes for 3-2 TEST
1
• The type of weather associated with an
low pressure system would be
incoming _____
storms
cloudy, chance of ______.
2
• Warm, moist air that moves ________
upward over a
clouds
mountain range most likely form _______.
3
• Precipitation that occurs when rain falls
through a layer of freezing air close to ground
sleet
is known as _______.
4
• Winds in a _____
low pressure system that form in
the Northern Hemisphere appear to rotate
________
counter clockwise when viewed from space.
5
satellites collect data over a very
• Weather __________
broad area compared with surface weather
instruments.
6
• Weather map symbols H and L indicate air
_________
pressure centers.
7
• Water will change to a ____
gas if enough energy
absorbed by liquid water.
is _________
8
• Air _______
masses move in the United States move
west to east.
from _____
9
• Severe thunderstorms form when a _____
cold air
moist air.
mass comes in contact with warm, ______
10
• ________
Doppler radar can provide the location,
type and motion of precipitation to weather
_____,
forecasters.
11
• _______
Stages of a thunderstorm include cumulus,
mature and dissipating.
_______
12
• Weather centers all over the world _________
exchange
centers
the data they collect with other ________.
13
• Storms along a ______
warm front produce
large area, and are
precipitation over a _____
sometimes violent.
14
• The type of air mass that forms in an area
location where it forms.
depends on the ________
15
• An instrument that measures relative
humidity with two identical thermometers is a
_________________.
psychrometer.
16
• Meteorologists use _________
computer models to help
them make forecasts from data they have
input into computers.
17
• If the barometer reading _____,
falls a good
storm is coming.
hypothesis would be that a ______
18
• An instrument used to measure air pressure is
barometer
a __________.
19
• A warm front occurs when warm air moves
cold air.
into ____
20
• If you collect data for air temperature,
pressure you are measuring
humidity and air ________,
________.
weather
21
• __________
Hurricanes begin when warm, moist air rises
and the moisture condenses, releasing energy
in the form of ______
latent heat.
22
• When an air mass moves rapidly ________
upward
vapor
temperatures fall and water ______
condenses.
23
• Clouds that often bring thunderstorms are
cumulonimbus
_____________.
24
• Doppler ______
radar can save lives by warning
storm
people of an approaching ______.
25
• States in the mid-central United States are
tornados because the
more likely to have _________
cold dry air from Canada contacts warm,
_____
moist air from the Gulf of Mexico.
26
• A ________
tornado will follow a __________
haphazard path if it
touches down.
27
• A cold front forms when a cold air mass
warm air mass and lifts the
overtakes a ______
warm air mass off the _______.
ground
28
• Scientists use _______
colors and symbols to convey
map
information on a weather _____.
29
• A cloud whose name has the prefix ______nimbo or
rain
the suffix –nimbus is ____-producing.
30
• Doppler radar measures ___________
precipitation by
waves off rain or snow.
bouncing radio _______
31
• Oceans have slow temperature ________
changes
which stabilize the temperatures of air masses
that form over them and cause towns near an
ocean often to be ________
warmer in winter and
cooler in summer than towns at the same
latitude but located ______.
inland
32
• Triangular shaped symbols colored _____
blue on a
cold air
weather map point the direction a _____
mass is moving.
33
• Hurricanes develop over _______
oceans because
vapor and energy to the
oceans add water ______
air mass.
34
• When ___
air pressure goes up temperature will
down
usually go ______.
35
• A low pressure system forms when warm air
rises
_____.
36
• An ___________
anticyclone forms as the air sinks and
high pressure
flows outward from a center of ____
which brings dry weather.
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