Weather System

Low pressure will usually bring what kind of weather?

• Sunny

• Calm

• Stormy

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High pressure will usually bring what kind of weather?

• clear and dry

• cloudy and wet

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Air masses are either ________ and either _______.

• warm or cold

• moist or dry

• both

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Does cold air move ABOVE or UNDER the warm air in a cold front?

• under

• above

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• cold front

• warm front

• high pressure

• low pressure

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What is a front?

• when something is in front of you

• where two air masses meet

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Which of the statements below best describes a hurricane?

• A storm with rotating winds around a high pressure zone.

• A storm with vertical, column-shaped high speed rotating winds

• A rotating storm with high speed winds around a low pressure area

• A powerful snowstorm with strong winds

This image shows which weather system?

• Blizzard

• Tornado

• Hurricane

• Derecho

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What is the term used to describe the area at the centre of the weather system shown in the picture?

• Spiral bands

• Eye wall

• Eye

• Feeder bands

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Which of the following may result from the passage of a hurricane?

• Tornadoes

• Heavy rains

• Damage to roofs

• Snow storms

• Flooding

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