the weather over an area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
100
Suspended ice crystals or water droplets in the air.
What is a cloud?
100
When a warm and a stronger cold wind collide....
What is a cold front?
100
A cyclone made out of high-speed winds that looks like a giant straw.
What is a tornado?
100
the point when more condensation the evaporation occurs
What is the dew point?
200
tropical, temperate, polar are...
What are the three climate zones?
200
forms from cooled water vapor in the air.
How does a cloud form?
200
when a cold wind and a stronger warm wind collide...
What is a warm front
200
A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating.
What is a Hurricane?
200
(Wind-related question)
wind is created by the heating of the earth and the rotation of the earth.
How is wind created?
300
large bodies of water, earth features, and ocean currents all affect...
what affects climate?
300
A cloud that forms near the surface.
What is fog?
300
when a cold and warm air collide and neither strong enough to get past the other
What is a stationary front
300
an organized low-pressure system of thunderclouds
What is a tropical depression
300
ice balls falling from clouds.
What is hail?
400
_______________refers to any long-term trends or shifts in climate over many decades
What is climate change?
400
The point when water in clouds is too heavy to stay up and falls down.
What is precipitation?
400
When a warm air is trapped between two cold winds and separated from the ground
What is an occluded front?
400
a mature tropical cyclone that develops between 180° and 100°E in the Northern Hemisphere
What is a typhoon?
400
ice, snow, and water falling from clouds.
What is sleet?
500
Increases in extreme climate events will pose challenges for America in the future.
What are the impacts of climate change?
500
when the sun heats up water and it rises up into the air.
What is evaporation?
500
a cold front, warm front, stationary front, and occluded front.
What are the types of fronts?
500
a system of winds rotating inward to an area of low atmospheric pressure, with a counterclockwise (northern hemisphere) or clockwise (southern hemisphere) circulation; a depression.