Fill in the blank. Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the question. (1 point each)

26) Relative to lower temperatures, high temperatures require ________ (more / the same amount / less) moisture to fully saturate the air.

27) Mixing ratio, relative humidity, and dew-point temperature are all ways of measuring the amount of ________ in the air.

28) 

Examine the photo. These balloons are rising because the ________ air inside the balloon is less dense than the surrounding air.

29) ________ occurs when warm air is forced up and over a mass of cooler air.

30) ________ is a cloud with its base at or very near the ground.

31) Updrafts in cumulonimbus clouds may loft small particles of ice through the cloud, coating them and producing ________.

32) ________ is the result of horizontal differences in air pressure.

33) For a low-pressure center to be maintained or strengthened, the surface convergence must be balanced by ________ aloft.

34) In the Northern Hemisphere, the Coriolis effect shifts objects to the ________ of their straight-line paths.

35) Chinook and Santa Ana winds are warm, dry winds created when air descends the leeward side of a mountain and ________ by compression.

36) Polar easterlies may dominate Alaska’s prevailing winds, and NE trade winds may dominate in Hawaii, but ________ dominate the prevailing winds of the “lower 48” (contiguous) United States.

37) ___________ is a situation where dense cold air actively advances into a region occupied by warmer air.

38) _________ is a situation where warmer air actively advances into a region occupied by dense cold air.

39) _________ is a scale for ranking how powerful a tornado is.

40) _________ is a scale for ranking how powerful a hurricane is.

#26-40 Vocabulary (extra words and/or phrases are included, not all will be used)

cold front

warm front

occluded front

left

right

warms

cools

southerlies

westerlies

Mohs Scale

enhanced Fujita intensity scale

Saffir-Simpson scale

less

more

same

water vapor

hot (warm)

rain

freezing rain

fog

cyclone

hail

sleet

wind

divergence

convergence

frontal sparking

frontal wedging

reverse wedging