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Earth Science Ch 24

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  • Q1
    A large body of air throughout which temperature and moisture content are similar.
    Air Mass
    30s
  • Q2
    The front edge of a moving cold air that plunges beneath a warmer air mass like a wedge.
    Cold Front
    30s
  • Q3
    The front edge of advancing warm air mass that replaces colder air with warmer air.
    Warm Front
    30s
  • Q4
    A front of air masses that moves either very slowly or not at all.
    Stationary Front
    30s
  • Q5
    A 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 Front
    30s
  • Q6
    An area of low pressure that is characterized by rotating wind that moves toward the rising air of the central low-pressure region.
    Midlatitude Cyclone
    30s
  • Q7
    A usually brief, heavy, storm that consists of rain, strong winds, lightning, and thunder.
    Thunderstorm
    30s
  • Q8
    A 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.
    Hurricane
    30s
  • Q9
    A destructive, rotating column of air that has very high wind speeds and that maybe visible as a funnel-shaped cloud.
    Tornado
    30s
  • Q10
    An instrument that measure and indicates temperature.
    Thermometer
    30s
  • Q11
    An instrument that measures atmospheric pressure.
    Batometer
    30s
  • Q12
    An instrument used to measure wind speed.
    Anemometer
    30s
  • Q13
    An instrument used to determine the direction of the wind.
    Wind Vane
    30s
  • Q14
    A package of instruments that is carried aloft by balloons to measure upper atmospheric conditions, including temperature, dew point, and wind velocity.
    Radiosponde
    30s
  • Q15
    Radio and detection and ranging, a system that uses reflected radio waves to determine the velocity and location of objects.
    Radar
    30s

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