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Where does cold,
dry air affecting
the northern
United States
come from?
continental air
mass
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What happens
when rapidly
moving cold air
masses overtake a
slow-moving warm
air mass?
What happens
when a warm air
a stationary front
mass and a cold
air mass meet and
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neither can move
the other?
What are the two
major differences
between cyclones
and anticyclones?
Weather
associated with an
anticyclone is
_________ and
________.
What is a funnel
shaped cloud that
touches the
Earth’s surface?
dry and clear
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a storm shelter or
Where are the
the basement of a What is the most
best places to seek
well-built building dangerous aspect
shelter during a
of a snow storm?
tornado?
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technological
What has
improvements and
improved weather
computers
forecasting in
recent years?
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Scientists who
study weather and
predict it are
called__________.
a cold front
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air pressure and
direction of
rotating winds
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a tornado
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high winds
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Meteorologists
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What are isobars?
What do lines with
half circles on a
weather map
indicate?
In what type of
clouds do
thunderstorms
form?
What has
improved the
collection of
weather data in
the last 40 years?
The eye of a
hurricane is said to
be ______.
The weather
lines on a weather
caused by a
map that show
continental air
areas with the
mass that formed
same air pressure
over northern
Mexico is
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_______.
warm fronts
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cumulonimbus
clouds
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What type of front
forms when a
warm air mass
overtakes a cold
air mass?
“Tornado Alley”
includes what
states?
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warm front
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Texas, Oklahoma,
Kansas, Nebraska,
and Iowa
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Under what
weather balloons
weather
and satellites
conditions do
hurricanes usually
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form?
Calm
Hot and Dry
What technology
enables a
meteorologist to
follow the path of
a thunderstorm?
They begin as a
low pressure area
or tropical
disturbance over
warm ocean
water. 17-2
Radar
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Air masses in the
United States are
commonly moved
by jet streams and
the ________.
Safe places to be
during a
thunderstorm are
_____ & _______.
A dome of water
that sweeps across
the coast where a
hurricane lands is
called a ______.
This weather front
may bring days of
rain because
neither air mass
can move the
other.
During a
thunderstorm a
person should not
touch ______
objects.
prevailing
westerlies
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The prevailing
westerlies
generally push air
masses from
_____ to ______.
west to east
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indoors or
People would
crouching in a low Describe an
temporarily leave
area such as a
evacuation during the area.
ditch
a hurricane watch.
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storm surge
What is a storm?
a violent
disturbance in the
atmosphere
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stationary front
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Metal
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This weather front
occurs when a
warm air mass is
caught between
two cooler air
masses.
Large amounts of
humid air that
cools below 0
degrees Celsius
can produce a
_______storm.
occluded front
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Snow
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What storms form
within large
cumulonimbus
clouds and
produce rain and
lightning?
Sudden, violent
storms that occur
shortly after a
storm are called
__________.
Thunderstorms
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flash floods
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During a ______ ,
try to find shelter
from the wind and
cover exposed
parts of the body.
A long-lasting
storm that begins
over the warm
surface of the
ocean and has
winds of
119km/hr is a
_________.
stationary front
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warm front
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occluded front
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cold front
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Snowstorm
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Hurricane
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station model
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