Ch. 8 Weather

The title for Chapter 8 Weather Lesson 4 is...

• Air Masses

• Vocabulary

• Scientific thinking

• Vortex

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Air masses move by...

• Storms

• Fronts

• Jet Streams

• Humidity

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What is a front?

• The area where hot and cold air masses meet.

• The front of a tornado.

• The water cycle.

• The front of the line.

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The swirling center of a cyclone has___pressure?

• Medium

• Low

• Angle

• High

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The opposite of a cyclone is an....

• Tornado

• Hurricane

• Monsoon

• Anticyclone

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Maritme Tropical, Continental Tropical, Maritime Polar, Continental Polar

• Are the 4 major earthquakes.

• Are the 4 major trees.

• Are the 4 major air masses.

• Mean nothing.

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Which is not a type of precipitation?

• hail

• rain

• sleet

• leaves

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A long period of scarce rainfall or dry weather is known as a...

• needs some seasoning

• drought

• snowstorm

• hot day

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An instrument use to measure relative humidity.

• telescope

• psychrometer

• stethescope

Evaporation, condensation, and precipitation are part of....

• cloud formation

• 2nd grade science

• frog cycle

• the water cycle.

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