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Question 1

A desert is covered with it own unique ______ which makes it dry.

Answer 1

air mass

Question 2

Differences in _______ are the cause of different types of weather, such as when it is low storms can form and when it’s high the weather may be dry and sunny.

Answer 2

air pressure

Question 3

Thunderstorms can be formed at a cold _______ where denser cool air collides with less dense warmer air.

Answer 3

front

Question 4

________ predicted the snowstorm that impacted multiple states and were able to give people warning that is was coming.

Answer 4

Meteorologists

Question 5

A calm breeze or gusty powerful _______ is caused by the movement of air between high and low pressures.

Answer 5

wind

Question 6

Tropical and arctic areas are both considered _______ even though one is hot and one is cold.

Answer 6

source regions

Question 7

The _______ of Earth’s orbit has changed from circular to more elliptical over the span of hundreds of thousands of years.

Answer 7

eccentricity

Question 8

The ________ or tilt of Earth’s axis cycles between 24.5 and 22.5 degrees.

Answer 8

obliquity

Question 9

The _______ or rotation of Earth’s axis can take 26,000 years.

Answer 9

precession

Question 10

_______ allows meteorologists to use different types of information such as wind speed, temperature, and moisture to help predict the weather.

Answer 10

Data assimilation

Question 11

Both the American and European models use an ______ to predict the weather, however the European model uses 30 more sources than the American model.

Answer 11

ensemble forecast