Ch 24.5-24.6 Slides #51-70

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Across
  1. 2. An air mass that originates where it is very cold.
  2. 5. This type of front forms when a warm air mass is caught between two cooler air masses.
  3. 9. A line on a map that connects points of equal air temperature.
  4. 10. A weather system with a swirling center of high air pressure is called an ___.
  5. 11. This front occurs when a warm air mass overtakes a cold air mass.
  6. 14. Meteorologist can use these high-speed computers to analyze data and create both short and long term weather _____.
  7. 16. This type of front occurs when two unlike air masses have formed a boundary but neither is moving.
  8. 17. The sharply defined boundary that forms when two unlike air masses meet is called a ___.
  9. 18. An air mass that forms over water transpiration.
Down
  1. 1. A large tropical cyclone with winds of at least 74 miles per hour.
  2. 3. A weather system around a center of low pressure is called a ___.
  3. 4. The study of earth’s atmosphere is called ___.
  4. 6. An air mass that forms over land.
  5. 7. A thunderstorm is a ______ weather system that includes thunder and lightning.
  6. 8. An air mass that originates where it is very warm.
  7. 12. An air _____ is a large body of air that has fairly uniform physical properties, such as temperature and moisture content, at any given altitude.
  8. 13. A line that connects point of equal air pressure.
  9. 15. This front occurs when a cold air mass overtakes a warm air mass.
  10. 16. Scientist can calculates a storm’s _____ by calculating how much the frequency of doppler radar waves change.