Weather Terms

5. warm air mass
7. a violent disturbance in the atmosphere
9. scientists who study the causes of weather and try to predict it
12. a small storm often accompanied by precipitation, thunder, and lightning
13. a rapidly whirling, funnel-shaped cloud that reaches down from a storm
15. a tropical cyclone that has winds of 119km/h or more; forms over water
19. the way the Earth's rotation makes the winds curve
20. huge body of air with similar temp, humidity, and air pressure

1. when cold and warm front meet, but neither can move the other
2. the increased cooling a wind can cause
3. when a warm air mass is caught between two cooler air masses
4. when a rapidly moving warm air mass moves over a cold air mass
6. a "dome" of water that sweeps across the coast where the hurricane lands
8. the boundary where air masses meet
9. air mass that forms over oceans
10. air mass that forms over land
11. cold air mass
14. a snapshot of conditions at a particular time over a large area
16. when a rapidly moving cold air mass overtakes and slides under a warm air mass
17. the horizontal movement of air from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
18. embedded in prevailing westerlies, 10km above Earth's surface, flow west to east