Weather Test Study Guide – Flashcards
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Where do clouds form when water molecules condense and stick to dust, polution pr smoke partcles.
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Troposphere
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Hail forms in what type cloud?
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Cumulonibus
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The current caused by warm air/liquid rising and cool air/liquid sinking.
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Convection
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Weather pattern in the Unites States which is affected by a global wind pattern which causes weather patterns to move form west to east.
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Westerlies
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Large body of air that has the same properties of surface under it.
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Air mass
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Where do continental air masses form over?
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Continent
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Where do maritime air masses form over?
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Ocean
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The place where air masses come together.
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Front
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The movement of air due to differences in air pressure.
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Wind
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The amount of air moisture in the air.
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Humidity
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Corl air pushing up warm air;brings stormy, rainy weather
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Cold Front
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Warm air mass moves the cold air out of the area
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Warm front
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Warm air mass and cold air mass meet and neither moves;causes stratus clouds and steady drizzle.
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Stationart Front
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Blows from the ocean toward the land during the day becaus ethe land warms faster than the ocean, these cool the area near the ocean.
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Sea breeze
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Average weather conditions in the area for a long period of time.
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Climate
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Cold to freezing climate near the poles
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Polar clinate
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Warm to hot climate near the equator
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Tropical climate
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Most powerful storm that form over tropical water.
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Hurricane
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Storm that forms over land,
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Tornado
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Long periods of unusually low precipitation;causes wells to dry up.
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Drought
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Brings dry weather and clear skies
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H- high pressure
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Brings clouds and rainy weather
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L- low pressure
