75% of the atmosphere, where life exists
troposphere
studies weather
metiorologist
A wall of water hitting land during a hurricane
storm surge
most violent tornados come from
super cells
Warmest layer
thermosphere
cloud droplets combine and grow large enough to fall to earth
precipitation
Part of the hurricane with the highest/strongest wind and most rainfall
eyewall
a Fujita scale is what
0 to 5 measures a tornados intensity
Rocks that make up the earth is
Geosphere
air moving in a specific direction
wind
How many categories in the saffir-simpson hurricane scale
5
An rotating updraft
mesocycle
part of the earth where life exists
biosphere
The boundary between warm and cold air masses is a
front
two ingredients needed to form a hurricane
wind and warm water
forms when warm humid air collides with cold dry air
Tornado
the atmosphere is a mixture of what
Gases
measurement of the average amount of motion in molecules
temperature
a tropical storm becomes a hurricane when winds reach how many miles per hour
74
cannot withstand the enormous force of tornados to record them
anemometers