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A Enhanced Fujita Scale measures what? |
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A hurricane uses what as energy? |
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What are lines on a map joining places that have same air pressure? |
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What is a funnel shaped cloud that touches the earth? |
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Presence of ________________ and cooling of the air are two conditions that required for cloud formation. |
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What is boundary where two air masses meat? |
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who are scientists that study the cause of wearther and attempt to predict it? |
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What is change from a gas to a liquid |
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Warm and cold fronts are associated with What? |
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What are wispy feathery clouds? |
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What are cloudes that are fluffy white clouds? |
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What are clouds that form with flat layers? |
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What is most damaging part of a hurricane? |
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What are curved lines joining places that have the same temperature conditions? |
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What decreases when you go high above the atmosphere? |
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wHAT IS the heat transfer? |
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What is prosses when heat comes from the sun? |
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Is process when water vapor enters the atmosphere? |
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What is a river that curves |
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What is florida peninsula made of? |
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When u burn ur self what is this called? |
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What are boundaries where two air masses meet? |
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What is total energy of motion in particals? |
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Near the poles sun rays are less? |
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What are narrow bands of high speed winds? |
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What part of a hurricane controlls the strongest winds? |
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On top of mountians what is the climate? |
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Being in a basement is the safest place durring what? |
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What is the area above sea level |
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What is a long period of less rain? |
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What lowest area durring a thunderstorm? |
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Energy the sun travels to the earth is from? |
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What measures air pressure? |
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Air has pressure because of what? |
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What is process when rocks are beneath a glacier? |
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What does not affect tempature? |
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Process when wind removes objects from wind? |
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Wind carrying sand grains __________ when wind slows down or hits an object. |
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An anderiod barometer does not contain what? |
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What is a wide sloping deposit of sediment formed when a stream leaves a mountain range? |
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When that blows away from water brings alot of what? |
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What shapes u-shaped valleys? |
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what is located on the atlantic and gulf coast regions? |
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What happens when a hurricane rach land ? |
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Forcasters Issue about it |
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What is climate of the leeward side? |
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It deffirs from the wind ward side ammount of rainfall |
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