General Weather
Clouds
Precipitation
Violent Weather
Hurricanes
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How hot or cold the air is.
What is temperature?
100
The scientific name for collections of very small water droplets and ice crystals that form when water is evaporated from the ground
What are clouds
100
The temperature at which water freezes.
What is 32 degrees F?
100
The sound created by the expansion of air suddenly heated by lightning.
What is thunder?
100
One of the 2 names given to hurricane like storms that occur in other parts of the world.
What is a typhoon or cyclone?
200
These occur due to changes in weather patterns based on the Earth's tilt toward the sun.
What are the seasons?
200
Clouds that are formed by rapidly rising air, extending up to 39,000 feet and higher
What are Cumulus?
200
A form of precipitation made of many ice crystals grouped together.
What is snow?
200
The name of the formation caused by the spinning of air and water vapor inside a storm cloud
What is a funnel cloud?
200
Tropical storms must reach this wind speed to be classified as a hurricane.
What is 74 mph or greater?
300
Water that falls to Earth in the form of rain, snow, sleet, hail or freezing rain.
What is precipitation?
300
Name the 4 types of clouds in the chapter
What are cumulus, cirrus, stratus and nimbus?
300
Precipitation that freezes when it comes in contact with the ground
What is freezing rain?
300
The name given to a funnel cloud that actually makes contact with the ground.
What is a tornado?
300
The tight circle located in the center of an organized storm.
What is the eye?
400
The name for the regions around the equator, characterized by consistently warm temperatures and warm ocean water.
What are the Tropics?
400
To change from a gas to a liquid form
What is to condense?
400
Rain that turns to ice as it is falling to the ground
What is sleet?
400
The reason we see lightning before we hear thunder
What is because light travels faster than sound?
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The name of the scale used to rate hurricanes.
What is the Saffir-Simpson Scale?
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The name for the study of the weather
What is Metoerology?
500
Nimbus is a Latin word that means this in English
What is rain?
500
Water droplets that are tossed up and down in cumulonimbus clouds and freeze to ice, forming balls of various sizes.
What is hail?
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The name of the scale used to rate tornadoes from F-0 to F-5
What is Fujita Scale?
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Before a hurricane is formed, it must go through these 2 tropical stages
What is tropical depression and tropical storm?
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