Chapter cinco Flashcards
Isobar
a line on a weather map that joins places that have equal air pressure
meteorologist
A scientist who studies the causes of weather and tries to predict it
isotherm
A line on a weather map that joins places that have the same temperature
hurricane
A tropical storm that has winds of about 119 kilometers per hour or higher
storm suirge
A “dome” of water that sweeps across the coast where a hurricane lands
evacuate
To move away from an area temporarily to avoid hurricane conditions
storm
A violent disturbance in the atmosphere
thunderstorm
A small storm often accompanied by heavy precipitation and frequent thunder and lightning
tornado
A rapidly whirling funnel-shaped cloud that reaches down from a storm cloud to touch Earth’s surface
occluded front
Cut off, as in front where a warm air mass is caught between two cooler air masses
cyclone
A swirling center of low air pressure
anticyclone
A high pressure center of dry air
maritime air mass
A humid air mass that forms over oceans
continental air mass
A dry air mass that forms over land
front
The boundary where unlike air masses meet but do not mix
