Thunderstorms
Severe weather
Tropical Storms
Recurrent Weather
100
when air rises beacuse of unequal heating of Earth's surface within one air mass, this is called ______.
What is air-mass thunderstorm?
100
Sever thunderstroms that are extremely powerful are called _____.
What are supercells?
100
Favorable conditions for tropical cyclones are?
What are Tropical oceans?
100
Extended periods of well below average rainfall.
What is drought?
200
Sea- breeze thunderstroms and Mountain thunderstorms are types of ______________.
What is air-mass thunderstorms
200
Violent downdrafts that are concentrated in a local area are called _____________.
What are downbursts?
200
Where the strongest winds in a hurricane are usually at.
What is eyewall?
200
Extended periods of above average temperatures.
What is heat waves?
300
Air mass thunderstorms and frontal thunderstroms are types of ____________.
What are thunderstorms?
300
A violent, whirling column of air in contact with the ground.
What is tornado?
300
Large, rotating. low pressure tropical storms?
What is tropical cyclones?
300
Estimates how cold the air feels to the human body
What is windchill index?
400
Teh second stage of a thunderstorm developments is called?
What is mature stage?
400
Ranks tornadoes according to therir destruction and estimated wind speed.
What is Enhanced FujitaTornado Damage Scale?
400
The development of the calm center of the storm
What is eye?
400
Is an extended period of below- average temperatures.
What are cold waves?
500
the channel of partially charged air is called ____
What is stepped leader?
500
water droplets that freeze in the cumulonimbus clouds?
What is hail?
500
Classifies hurricanes according to wind speeds.
What is Saffir- Simpson hurricane wind Scale?
500
____________areas are more susceptible to flooding.
What is low-lying?
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