
Earth Science Ch 24
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- Q1A large body of air throughout which temperature and moisture content are similar.Air Mass30s
- Q2The front edge of a moving cold air that plunges beneath a warmer air mass like a wedge.Cold Front30s
- Q3The front edge of advancing warm air mass that replaces colder air with warmer air.Warm Front30s
- Q4A front of air masses that moves either very slowly or not at all.Stationary Front30s
- Q5A front that forms when a cold air mass overtakes a warm air mass and lifts the warm air mass off the ground and over another air mass.Occluded Front30s
- Q6An area of low pressure that is characterized by rotating wind that moves toward the rising air of the central low-pressure region.Midlatitude Cyclone30s
- Q7A usually brief, heavy, storm that consists of rain, strong winds, lightning, and thunder.Thunderstorm30s
- Q8A severe storm that develops over tropical oceans and whose strong winds of more then 120 km/h spiral in toward the intensely low-pressure storm center.Hurricane30s
- Q9A destructive, rotating column of air that has very high wind speeds and that maybe visible as a funnel-shaped cloud.Tornado30s
- Q10An instrument that measure and indicates temperature.Thermometer30s
- Q11An instrument that measures atmospheric pressure.Batometer30s
- Q12An instrument used to measure wind speed.Anemometer30s
- Q13An instrument used to determine the direction of the wind.Wind Vane30s
- Q14A package of instruments that is carried aloft by balloons to measure upper atmospheric conditions, including temperature, dew point, and wind velocity.Radiosponde30s
- Q15Radio and detection and ranging, a system that uses reflected radio waves to determine the velocity and location of objects.Radar30s