Chapter 20: Weather Pattern and Severe Storms

A(n) ______ is an immense body of air that is characterized by similar temperatures and amounts of moisture.

• Front

• Cyclone

• Air Mass

• Hurricane

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When two air masses meet, they form a _____

• Front

• Cyclone

• Storm

• Tornado

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Violent windstorms that take the form of a rotation column of air called a vortex.

• Air Mass

• Hurricane

• Thunderstorm

• Tornado

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Hurricanes are whirling tropical cyclones that produce winds of at least ____ kilometers per hour.

• 20

• 119

• 150

• 206

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The ____ is a zone of scattered clouds and calm averaging about 20 kilometers in diameter at the center of a hurricane.

• Wall

• Eye

• Death Zone

• Storm Surge

Forms when warm air moves into an area formerly covered by cooler air.

• Stationary Front

• Cold Front

• Tornado

• Warm Front

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Forms when cold, dense air moves into a region occupied by warmer air.

• Cold Front

• Hurricane

• Stationary Front

• Warm Front

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when air is lifted because a warm and cold air mass meet and the warm less dense air is lifted over the cool air

• orographic lifting
• frontal wedging
• convergence
• localized convective lifting

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Thunderstorm clouds are called - 

• Cirrus
• Stratus
• Cumulus
• Cumulonimbus

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This is the symbol for a... 

• Cold Front
• Warm Front
• Stationary Front
• Occluded Front 

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