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28 Cards in this Set
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Advancing warm air mass displaces a cold air mass and glides over the top of it
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warm front
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A warm air mass is squeezed upward between two cold air masses
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occluded front
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Measures relative
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hygrometer
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Measures temperature
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theremomter
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Measures wind speed
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anemometer
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Measures air pressure
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barometer
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Measures height of cloud layers/estimates percentage of sky covered by clouds
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ceilometer
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___________ thunderstorm forms because of unequal heating of earth's surface within one air mass
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air mass
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What are associated with very severe thunderstorms called supercells
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tornadoes
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A mound of water driven toward coastal areas by hurricane winds are called
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storm surge
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Forms when an air mass rises as a result of orographic lifting
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mountain thunderstorm
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Up and down drafts that characterize severe thunderstroms are the result of
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unstable air, differences in temperature of the upper and lower parts of the storm
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Third stage in the development of a hurricane
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tropical storm
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What time of the day do air mass thunderstorm reach their maximum
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early evening
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What stage of a thunderstorm formation does air move mostly downward
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dissipation
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What part of a hurricane has the strongest winds
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eye wall
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Hail forms in part because of the presence of
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super cold water droplets
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What is the second stage of lighting
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return stroke
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Storm surge, what type of weather is occurring and where are you.
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Hurricane in coastal Florida
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At an oceanic-oceanic convergent boundary
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old crust is recycled by subduction
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Many early mapmakers thought Earth's continents had moved based on
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Matching coastlines
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The magnetic pattern of ocean-floor rocks on one side of an ocean ridge is
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a mirror image of that of the other side
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Continental-continental plate collisions produce
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very tall mountain ranges
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__________ is a process that occurs at convergent boundaries
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slab pull
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A narrow elongated depression in the seafloor
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deep-sea trench
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What phenomenon occurs along a transform boundary
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earthquake
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Mid-Atlantic Ridge is an example of a
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divergent boundary
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Subduction results in the formation of
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deep-sea trench
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