11.15: Weather- Challenge 2
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- 5522
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- 1. Electrical charge separations in cumulonimbus clouds generate electric potentials, which are released as electricity in the form of ___.
- lightning
- 2. A thunderstorm will end when ___.
- downdrafts cool the base of the cloud and shut down convection
- 3. Thunder arises from ___.
- rapidly expanding air heated explosively by lightning
- 4. When a warm air mass rises at a cold front, a ___ pressure cell is created.
- low
- 5. Mid-latitude cyclones form at the ___ when the temperature difference between two air masses is ___.
- polar front; large
- 6. Hurricanes get their energy from the ___ water they form and travel over.
- warm
- 7. Hurricane Katrina caused so much damage to New Orleans because ___.
- it broke the levees that protected the city
- 8. The Saffir-Simpson Scale measures hurricane intensity, ranging from ___.
- 1-5, with 1 being the weakest
- 9. Snow storms, sleet, and cold winds occur in ___.
- blizzards
- 10. Blizzards are most common in winter when the jet stream has moved ___.
- south
- 11. Buffalo and Rochester, New York, are the snowiest metropolitan areas in the U.S. because they are downwind from ___.
- The Great Lakes
- 12. A ___ happens when a region gets significantly less precipitation than normal for an extended period of time.
- drought
- 13. A period of excessively hot weather in a particular region for a prolonged period of time is a ___.
- heat wave