Severe Weather
A severe weather event that typically has lots of rain, wind, and lightning.
What is a thunderstorm?
Name at least 2 factors of climate
What is latitude, ocean currents, mountains, large bodies of water?
The changing in directions of air masses as you move away from the equator towards a tropic is due to these.
What are prevailing winds?
The main difference between climate and weather.
What is the length of time?
The phenomena of one air mass replacing another.
What is wind?
A sound caused by the rapid expansion of air along an electrical strike
What is thunder?
A event that causes a rainforest on one side of a mountain and a desert on the other.
What is the rain shadow effect?
When the whole planet receives an equal amount of daylight.
What is an equinox?
The two items that climate and weather both focus on when determining forecast.
What is temperature and precipitation?
A climate factor that affects an area by increasing/decreasing the temperature of the air over the water.
What is large bodies of water and ocean currents?
A destructive, rotating column of air that has very high wind speeds, is visible as a funnel-shaped cloud, and touches the ground?
What is a tornado?
The result of higher elevation.
What is get colder?
A climate that typically has less precipitation and a bigger temperature range.
What is a continental climate?
In weather, the amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
A landform that affects climate by causing air to rise.
What are mountains?
A severe storm that develops over tropical oceans and whose strong winds of more than 120 km/h spiral in toward intensely low pressure storm center.
What is a hurricane?
The cause of warmer temperatures at the equator.
What is more direct solar energy?
When a city has a warmer temperature than the areas around it, it is called this?
What is a heat island?
The type of front that brings cooler temperatures and typically thunderstorms.
What is a cold front?
A result of extra greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
What is climate change?
A natural disaster caused by the shaking of the Earth and not classified as a severe "weather" event.
What is an earthquake?
A climate type as a result of little precipitation.
What is a desert?
The amount of sunlight a surface reflects. (The less of this, the less light it reflects, causing the temperature to be warmer).
What is albedo?
What are stratus, cumulus, and cirrus clouds?
Name at least 2 tools used to measure weather and climate.
What is a weather balloon, radiosonde, thermometer, anemometer, or barometer.