Vocab Review #7 (Weather Phenomena)

What is the term for a body of air with horizontally uniform temperature, humidity, and pressure?

• air mass

• atmosphere

• gust front

• breeze

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

The following terms are used to describe air masses. Match the term to its definition.

• maritime

• forms over large bodies of water

• tropical

• forms over land

• continental

• forms in a cool location

• arctic

• forms in a warm location

• polar

• forms in a very cold location

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Match the following severe weather phenomena to their definition.

• a severe storm formed in the tropics with high winds that spiral around a calm center

• hurricane

• a tropical cyclone that forms in the northern Atlantic and northeastern Pacific basins

• tropical cyclone

• a tropical cyclone occurring in the western Pacific or Indian oceans

• typhoon

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Which definition best describes "directional shear?"

• occurs when winds high in the atmosphere are moving faster than winds at the surface

• an upward current of rising air; also known as "lift"

• changes in wind direction at different altitudes causing rising air to begin to rotate

• the boundary between cold and warm air at the surface during a thunderstorm which forces warm air up into the storm cell

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

What type of cloud is described?

"a dense, towering vertical cloud formed from water vapor carried by powerful upward air currents"

• cirrus

• cumulus

• cumulonimbus

• cirrocumulus

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Which definition best describes "speed shear?"

• occurs when winds high in the atmosphere are moving faster than winds at the surface

• an upward current of rising air; also known as "lift"

• changes in wind direction at different altitudes causing rising air to begin to rotate

• the boundary between cold and warm air at the surface during a thunderstorm which forces warm air up into the storm cell

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Which definition best describes "gust front?"

• occurs when winds high in the atmosphere are moving faster than winds at the surface

• an upward current of rising air; also known as "lift"

• changes in wind direction at different altitudes causing rising air to begin to rotate

• the boundary between cold and warm air at the surface during a thunderstorm which forces warm air up into the storm cell

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Which definition best describes "updraft?"

• an upward current of rising air; also known as "lift"

• a rapidly moving current of cool air that flows downward in a thunderstorm

• to cause to disappear; to scatter, or dispel

• a rising of the sea as a result of atmospheric pressure changes and wind assocated with a storm

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Which definition best describes "downdraft?"

• an upward current of rising air; also known as "lift"

• a rapidly moving current of cool air that flows downward in a thunderstorm

• to cause to disappear; to scatter, or dispel

• a rising of the sea as a result of atmospheric pressure changes and wind assocated with a storm

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Which definition best describes "dissipate?"

• an upward current of rising air; also known as "lift"

• a rapidly moving current of cool air that flows downward in a thunderstorm

• to cause to disappear; to scatter, or dispel

• a rising of the sea as a result of atmospheric pressure changes and wind assocated with a storm