Weather Vocab 2

Air Mass

•  A boundary between two air masses.

•  A large body of air that has similar temperatures and amounts of moisture

• A warm front is caught between two cold fronts.

• Natural warming of the lower atmosphere and earth.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Front

• A boundary between two air masses.

• When cold air moves into an area occupied by warmer air.

• The center of the storm.

•  Very cold temperatures

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Warm Front

•  A storm that generates thunder and lightning.

• The ratio of the amount of water vapor in the air compared with what it can hold at that temperature.

• When warm air moves into an area frequently covered by cold air.

• Changing a liquid to a gas.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Cold Front

•  The surface position of the front does not move

• The doughnut shaped wall that surrounds the center of the storm.

•  An increase in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses which increase global temperatures.

• When cold air moves into an area occupied by warmer air.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Stationary Front

• A warm front is caught between two cold fronts.

• The surface position of the front does not move

•  Whirling tropical cyclone that produce winds of at least 74 mph (119 K per hour)

• Very cold temperatures

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Occluded Front

•  A boundary between two air masses.

•  Changing water vapor to a liquid.

•  Generally warm year round.

•  A warm front is caught between two cold fronts.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Thunderstorms

• Natural warming of the lower atmosphere and earth.

• Whirling tropical cyclone that produce winds of at least 74 mph (119 K per hour)

• A storm that generates thunder and lightning.

• When cold air moves into an area occupied by warmer air.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Tornado

• A tropical cyclone that forms in the Pacific

•  A large body of air that has similar temperatures and amounts of moisture

• A roller coaster ride at DollyWood

• Violent windstorms that take the form of a rotating column of air

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Hurricanes

• Whirling tropical cyclone that produce winds of at least 74 mph (119 K per hour)

• The amount of water vapor in the air. 

•  A storm that generates thunder and lightning.

• Do not exist in the Atlantic ocean.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Eye Wall

• The outside edge of the storm.

• The center of the storm.

• The doughnut shaped wall that surrounds the center of the storm.

• The calmest part of the storm and the one with the lowest wind speed.