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28 Cards in this Set
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What is a predication?
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A prediction is a hypothesis,an educated guess for the future.
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What does air do when it is heated?
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When air gets hot,it rises.
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What does air do when it is cold?
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When air is cold it falls.
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Describe what you know about how tornados form.
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Tornados form during a thunder storm over land when 2 air masses one hot one cold meet head on.
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Describe what you know about how a hurricane forms.
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A hurricane forms over warm water in low pressure.
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What happens when air masses of of very different temperature and humidity conditions meet?
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It makes hurricanes and tornados.
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Do hurricanes and tornados have the same diameters?
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No
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Do hurricanes and tornados contain spiraling winds?
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Yes
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Where do hurricanes and tornados form?
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Hurricanes form over warm water in low pressure.
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Where does the energy from our weather come from?
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The sun.
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clouds form in low pressure conditions.
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True
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Tornados form in low pressure over warm water.
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False,tornados form during a thunder storm on land when 2 air masses 1 cold 1 hot meet head on.
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Clouds form in high pressure conditions.
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False,clouds form in low pressure conditions.
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Temperatures are cooler at higher altitudes.
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True.
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Clouds contain condensed water vapor and dust.
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True
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Hurricanes form from thunder storms ,when 2 air masses of sharply different temperature and humidity meet,normally on land.
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False,Hurricanes form in low pressure over warm water.
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Water vapor rises with warm air.
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True
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When wator evaporates,it changes from liquid to gas.
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True
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The circulation of air or water that forms from uneven heating is --------------- current.
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Convection
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What weather conditions do EL NINO bring about?Name 5
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Droughts ,floods warm water and warm air,famine,bush fires,hurricanes and tornados,land slides.
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weather maps:
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helps us know what the weather will be like for the day which prepares us for the day.
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Sattalites and sattalite images:
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Helps us see things that we cant see.
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Dopplar Radar:
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Shows us the velocity or range rate of something.
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How does the Gulf Stream affect the weather in new england united dtates?
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It makes it warmer there,because it brings in warm water and warm air.
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Name the states in Tornado Valley.
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Nebraska,Kansas,Missouri,Oklahoma,Texas.
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Why do more tornados occur in tornado alley?
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More tornados occur there because there the land is flat,which allows cold dry air from Canada to meet warm moist air from the Gulf of Mexico,which causes tornados to form.
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What does a meteorologist do?
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They study the atmospere that focuses on weather processes,and forcasting.
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Which is more dense?Hot air or cold air?
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Cold air is because in cold air all the molecules inside it are together and not moving,where hot air is moving and expanded out.
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