Extreme weather
A violently rotating column of air that extends from a thunderstorm to the ground.
What is a tornado?
The continuous movement of water through the clouds, land and the atmosphere.
What is the water cycle?
The instrument used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
A small collection of water droplets suspended in the air.
What are clouds?
The name of a hurricane in the Bay of Bengal.
What is a cyclone?
A large volume of air in which temperature and moisture content are nearly the same throughout.
What is an air mass?
Any form of water that falls from the sky.
What is precipitation?
Water vapor that condenses very near Earth´s surface.
What is fog?
The name of a hurricane in the Western Pacific
What is a typhoon?
When warm air moves over cool air.
What is a warm front?
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
Surfaces on which water droplets condense.
What are cloud condensation nuclei?
The scale used to measure hurricane strength.
What is the Saffir-Simpson scale?
When warm air and cold air stop moving.
What is a stationary front?
The instrument that measures wind direction.
What is a wind vane or a windsock?
The temperature at which the rate of condensation equals the rate of evaporation.
What is the dew point?
Issued once it is definite that a hurricane will hit in the next 24 hours.
What is a hurricane warning?
They distribute energy along Earth´s surface, changing the local temperature and humidity.
What are surface currents?
Instruments that collect data from the atmosphere.
What is a satellite?
The percentage of how much of the sun´s energy gets reflected back into space by clouds.
What is 25%?