QUIZ CHAPTER 20-EARTH SCIENCE

Complete the Bible Verse Psalm 107:29

He made...

An ___ _____is a huge body of air in the trophosphere with similar temperature and humidity thorughout.

TRUE OR FALSE- Our weather changes because air is always moving.

The source regions for air masses to take their temperature and humidity are the land and the ____.

When two different air masses meet, they do not easily mix unless they have similar temperature and humidity. Instead, they form a boundary called:

• warm

• cold

• front

• air mass

When cold air replaces warm air at the surface, this front is called?

• warm front

• cold front

• stationary front

• occluded front

This type of severe weather brings thunder, lightning, and usually heavy precipitation.

• winter storms

• thunderstorms

• tornadoes

• hurricanes

It is a narrow, rapidly spinning column of air extending downward from a cumulunimbus cloud.

• thunderstorm

• hurricane

• tornado

• storm

Tropical hurricanes need two things to form:

• warm water

• air

• the coriolis efect

• clouds

TRUE OR FALSE- GIS doesn't help with storm emergency response.