The document defines various weather-related terms: 1) It defines hurricanes as rotating columns of air extending between the surface and a convective cloud. Tornadoes are violently rotating columns touching the ground. 2) Air masses are large bodies of air with similar temperature and moisture characteristics. Weather describes the atmosphere at a point in time and its effects. 3) Cirrus, cirrostratus and cirrocumulus clouds are high-level clouds with different appearances that can predict weather. Cumulonimbus clouds produce hail and thunderstorms. 4) Fronts like cold fronts and warm fronts describe boundaries between differing air masses. The Coriolis effect causes tropical storm rotation. O

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2. Air that flows in relation to the earth’s surface, generally, horizontally

3. What is Wind?

4. A violently rotating column of air in contact with and extending between a convective cloud and the surface of the earth.

5. What is a Tornado?

6. An extensive body of air throughout which the horizontal. Temperature and moisture characteristics are similar.

7. What is an air mass?

8. The sound emitted by rapidly expanding gases along the channel of a lightening discharge.

9. What is thunder?

10. The state of the atmosphere at a specific time and with its respect to its effect on life and human activities .

11. What is weather?

12. A forming tornado that has not yet touched the ground.

13. What is a funnel cloud?

14. The part of a hurricane at the center where the weather is calm.

15. What is the eye?

16. When the depression strengthens to at least 39mph.

17. What is a tropical storm?

18. Hurricanes take energy from WHAT to become stronger?

19. What is the ocean?

20. The rotation of tropical storms are due to what?

21. What is the Coriolis Effect?

22. High cloud group that is usually white and predict fair weather.

23. What is a Cirrus cloud?

24. High cloud group that are sheet like thin clouds that usually cover the entire sky?

25. What is a cirrostratus cloud?

26. High cloud group that are small rounded puffs that usually appear in long rows.

27. What is a cirrocumulus cloud?

28. Anytime air expands because of a drop in pressure, it gets _____

29. What is cooler?

30. When warm air cools, water leaves the vapor that is in the warm water and condenses into _____

31. What is liquid?

32. A front where a cold air mass is pushing into a warmer air mass.

33. What is a cold front?

34. A front where a warm air mass is pushing into a colder air mass.

35. What is a warm front?

36. A front that forms when a cold front or warm front stops moving.

37. What is a stationary front?

38. A front where a cold front follows right behind a warm front.

39. What is a warm front?

40. In the Northern Hemisphere, air moves _____ around a high pressure.

41. What is clockwise?

42. Hail forms in what kind of cloud?

43. What is a Cumulonimbus cloud?