Weather Patterns Vocabulary

Question 1

Maritime

Answer 1

Comes from the ocean

Question 2

Polar

Answer 2

Comes from the far northern or far southern parts of earth

Question 3

Tropical

Answer 3

Comes from warm areas toward the equator

Question 4

Continental

Answer 4

Comes from the land

Question 5

Thunderstorm

Answer 5

A storm characterized by cumulonimbus clouds, lighting and thunder, commonly with heavy rainfall, strong winds and sometimes hail.

Question 6

Tornado

Answer 6

Violent windstorm of a rotating column of air called a vortex extending downward from a cumulonimbus cloud.

Question 7

Anticyclone

Answer 7

A center of high air pressure and clear weather with winds blowing clockwise outward and downward

Question 8

Cyclone

Answer 8

A center of low air pressure and stormy weather with winds blowing counterclockwise inward and upward

Question 9

Midlatitude Cyclone

Answer 9

A center of low air pressure and stormy weather that forms between 30 and 69 degrees latitude

Question 10

Hurricane

Answer 10

A center of low air pressure and stormy weather that forms over warm ocean water between the equator and 30 degrees latitude in the Atlantic Ocean and has winds stronger than 119 km/he

Question 11

Typhoon

Answer 11

A center of low air pressure and stormy weather that forms over warm ocean water between the equator and 30 degrees latitude in the PACIFIC Ocean and has winds stronger than 119 km/hr

Question 12

Tropical Storm

Answer 12

A center of low air pressure and stormy weather that forms over warm ocean water between the equator and 30 degrees latitude

Question 13

Continental Tropical

Answer 13

Warm and dry air mass

Question 14

Maritime Tropical

Answer 14

Warm and wet air mass

Question 15

Continental Polar

Answer 15

Cold and dry air mass

Question 16

Maritime Polar

Answer 16

Cold and wet air mass

Question 17

Isotherm

Answer 17

Line on a map with equal temperature

Question 18

Isobar

Answer 18

Line on a map with equal air pressure

Question 19

Meteorologist

Answer 19

Scientist who studies weather

Question 20

Air mass

Answer 20

A large body of air with similar temperature and amounts of moisture

Question 21

Front

Answer 21

Boundary between two air masses

Question 22

Stationary front

Answer 22

Boundary between two air masses that does not move

Question 23

Occluded front

Answer 23

Boundary between two air masses in which warm air is trapped between two masses of cold air and is pushed upward with heavy precipitation

Question 24

Cold front

Answer 24

Boundary between two air masses in which cold air moves into an area and replaces warm air

Question 25

Warm Front

Answer 25

Boundary between two air masses in which warm air moves into an area and replaces cold air

Question 26

Storm Surge

Answer 26

A dome of ocean water that floods coastal areas when a low pressure cyclone moves over the coastline

Question 27

Storm Track

Answer 27

The path along which a cyclone travels