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Science
6th Grade
12/18/2012

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A saffir simpson scale measures what?
Definition
Hurricane Strength
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A Enhanced Fujita Scale measures what?
Definition
Tornado Damage
Term
A hurricane uses what as energy?
Definition
Warm ocean water
Term
What are lines on a map joining places that have same air pressure?
Definition
Isobars
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What is a funnel shaped cloud that touches the earth?
Definition
Tornado
Term
Presence of ________________ and cooling of the air are two conditions that required for cloud formation.
Definition
Particals In tHe air
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What is boundary where two air masses meat?
Definition
Front
Term
who are scientists that study the cause of wearther and attempt to predict it?
Definition
Meteroligists
Term
What is change from a gas to a liquid
Definition
Condensation
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Warm and cold fronts are associated with What?
Definition
Thunder Storms
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What are wispy feathery clouds?
Definition
Cirrus Clouds
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What are cloudes that are fluffy white clouds?
Definition
Cumulus
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What are clouds that form with flat layers?
Definition
Stratus
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What is most damaging part of a hurricane?
Definition
Storm Surge
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What are curved lines joining places that have the same temperature conditions?
Definition
Isotherms
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What decreases when you go high above the atmosphere?
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Air Pressure
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wHAT IS the heat transfer?
Definition
Conduction
Term
What is prosses when heat comes from the sun?
Definition
Radiation
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Is process when water vapor enters the atmosphere?
Definition
Evaporation
Term
What is a river that curves
Definition
Miander
Term
What is florida peninsula made of?
Definition
Rock limestones
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What is not a front?
Definition
Jet streams
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When u burn ur self what is this called?
Definition
Conduction
Term
What are boundaries where two air masses meet?
Definition
Fronts
Term
What is total energy of motion in particals?
Definition
Thermal Energy
Term
Near the poles sun rays are less?
Definition
Direct
Term
What are narrow bands of high speed winds?
Definition
Term
What part of a hurricane controlls the strongest winds?
Definition
Eye wall
Term
On top of mountians what is the climate?
Definition
Cold
Term
Being in a basement is the safest place durring what?
Definition
A tornado
Term
What is the area above sea level
Definition
Altitude
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What is a long period of less rain?
Definition
Drout
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What lowest area durring a thunderstorm?
Definition
Crouching
Term
Energy the sun travels to the earth is from?
Definition
Radiation
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What measures air pressure?
Definition
Barometers
Term
Air has pressure because of what?
Definition
Air has mass
Term
What is process when rocks are beneath a glacier?
Definition
Plucking
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What does not affect tempature?
Definition
Prevailing winds
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Process when wind removes objects from wind?
Definition
Deflation
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Wind carrying sand grains __________ when wind slows down or hits an object.
Definition
Deposits the sand
Term
An anderiod barometer does not contain what?
Definition
Liquids
Term
What is a wide sloping deposit of sediment formed when a stream leaves a mountain range?
Definition
Aluviall fan
Term
When that blows away from water brings alot of what?
Definition
Precipitation
Term
What shapes u-shaped valleys?
Definition
Glaciers
Term
what is located on the atlantic and gulf coast regions?
Definition
Tornado valley
Term
What happens when a hurricane rach land ?
Definition
Forcasters Issue about it
Term
What is climate of the leeward side?
Definition
It deffirs from the wind ward side ammount of rainfall
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