Candyland weather patterns science project

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what is a tornado?

• rapidly, swirly looking, funnel-shaped cloud that goes up from a storm and touches the earth formed when thunderstorm updrafts begin to stop moving once its over

• air running away from the sky

• rapidly, whirling, funnel-shaped cloud that reaches down from a storm cloud and touches the earth’s surface formed when thunderstorm updrafts begin to rotate

• cold air rotating in the sky formed from storm clouds and not touching earths surface causing it to defy gravity

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!pick the right term to match the definition!

large body of circulating air with high pressure at its center and lower pressure outside the system; brings sunshine and good weather

• weather patterns

• cold front

• Low-pressure system

• High-pressure system

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What kind of front is this

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• warm front

• cold front

• occluded front

• cool front

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which one is the right definition?

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• move slowly and bring warm, humid air

• warm air mass is caught between two cold air masses

• moves faster and bring warm, humid air

• hot air moves under warm air forcing warm air up

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large _______of air that have ______temperature, _______ and ______

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• warm,dense,mass,pressure

• bodies,hot,density,water vapor

• Bodies,uniform,high-pressure,water

• bodies,uniform,humidity,pressure

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which one is a occluded front?

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What is a cold front?

• cold air moves under warm air forcing warm air up

• the cold water

• freezing air moves under warm air forcing warm air up

•  forms when a cold mass meets a warm mass but neither have enough force to move the other

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what is a maritime polar?

• over land(dry air) polar-(cold air)

• over ocean(moist air) polar(cold air)

• over land(dry air) tropical(warm air)

• over ocean(moist air) tropical(warm air)

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What Air mass is over land(dry air) polar-(cold air)

• Global winds

• Maritime polar

• Continental polar

• Occluded front

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What is a air mass?

Answer explanation

Large bodies of air that have uniform temperature, humidity and pressure

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