Air Masses And Fronts

Question 0

In the continental U.S. Air masses are commonly moved by what

Answer 0

Prevailing westerlies and jet streams

Question 1

What are the four major types of air masses influence the weather in North America

Answer 1

Maritime tropical
Continental tropical
Maritime polar
Continental polar

Question 2

Colliding air masses can form four types of fronts. What are they

Answer 2

Cold fronts
Warm fronts
Stationary fronts
Occluded fronts

Question 3

All year around most precipitation begins in what

Answer 3

Clouds as snow

Question 4

Cumulonimbus clouds are also known as what

Answer 4

Thunderheads

Question 5

Meteorologist you what to analyze whether

Answer 5

Maps charts computers

Question 6

Technological improvements in gathering weather data and using computers have improved accuracy of what

Answer 6

Weather forecasts

Question 7

Summer is in the Southwest are hot and dry because of what type of air mass

Answer 7

Maritime tropical

Question 8

Cumulonimbus clouds may produce both thunderstorms and what

Answer 8

Hurricanes

Question 9

What is a sudden spark or electrical discharge as electrical charges jump between parts of a cloud between nearby clouds or between a cloud in the ground

Answer 9

Lightning

Question 10

On the weather map what joins places on the map with the same air pressure

Answer 10

Isotherms

Question 11

A huge body of air that is similar temperature humidity and air pressure at any given height

Answer 11

air mass

Question 12

A warm air mass that forms in the tropics and has low air pressure

Answer 12

Topical

Question 13

A cold air mass that forms north of 50° North latitude or south of 50° South latitude and has a high air pressure

Answer 13

Polar

Question 14

A humid air mass that forms over oceans

Answer 14

Maritime

Question 15

A dry air mass that forms Overland

Answer 15

Continental

Question 16

The boundary where unlike air masses meet but do not mix

Answer 16

Front

Question 17

Cut off as in the front where a warm air mass is caught between two cooler air masses

Answer 17

Occluded

Question 18

A violent disturbance in the atmosphere

Answer 18

Storm

Question 19

A small storm often accompanied by heavy precipitation and frequent thunder and lightning

Answer 19

Thunderstorm

Question 20

A rapidly whirling funnel shaped cloud that reaches down to touch earths surface

Answer 20

Tornado

Question 21

A tropical storm that has winds of about 119 kilometers per hour or higher

Answer 21

Hurricane

Question 22

A dome of water that sweeps across the coast where a hurricane lands

Answer 22

Storm surge

Question 23

Scientists who study the causes of weather and try to predict it

Answer 23

Meteorologist

Question 24

A line on the weather map that joins places that have the same air pressure

Answer 24

Isobar

Question 25

A line on the weather map that joins places that had the same temperature

Answer 25

Isotherm

Question 26

Standard symbols on weather maps show what

Answer 26

From areas of high low pressure types of precipitation and temperatures

Question 27

What are the three main types of clouds based on the shape

Answer 27

Cumulus clouds serous clouds Stratus clouds

Question 28

What are the nine types of clouds

Answer 28

Cumulonimbus cumulus stratus nimbostratus altostratus Cirrocumulus fog cirrus altocumulus

Question 29

Any form of water that falls from the clouds and reaches Earth’s surface

Answer 29

Precipitation

Question 30

What measures relative humidity

Answer 30

Sling psychrometer

Question 31

In the middle latitudes between 30° and 60° north and south winds that blow towards the polls are turned toward the east by the corilis effect

Answer 31

Prevailing westerlies

Question 32

At about 30° North and South latitude the air stops moving toward the poles and sinks

Answer 32

Horse latitudes

Question 33

Regions near the equator with little or no wind are called the what

Answer 33

Doldrums