Extreme Weather
Definitions
Precipitation
Seasons
Questions?
100
change in wind direction and increase wind speed with increasing height; horizontal spinning
What is tornado?
100
contact zone between two different air masses
What is front?
100
less dense than air
What is water vapor?
100
December 22 or 23
What is Winter Solstice?
100
Hurricanes destroy more property than people, tornados kill more people and destroy less property. Why?
There is less warning time for a tornado.
200
very windy and cold conditions; falling snow and reduced visibility
What is a blizzard?
200
a mixture of suspended water droplets and ice crystals
What is clouds?
200
layer of the atmosphere that we look at the most when forecasting weather
What is troposphere?
200
June 21 or 22
What is Summer Solstice?
200
A device that warns you about a tornado in the middle of the night
What is a weather radio?
300
average rainfall for an area drops below normal for a long period of time
What is a drought?
300
measure of the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere
What is humidity?
300
3 processes that bring all moisture back to the atmosphere
What are evaporation, sublimation, and transpiration?
300
March 20 or 21
What is Vernal equinox?
300
Hurricanes gain energy from the heat released by
What is the condensation of water?
400
elevated water levels above the banks of a water system or immersed land due to intense rainfall
What is a flood?
400
condition in which the upper regions of the troposphere are warmer than the lower regions
What is temperature inversion?
400
tiny droplets join together to form larger droplets
What are collision-coalescence?
400
September 22 or 23
What is autumn equinox?
400
humid, unstable air that rises, cools, and condenses into a single cumulus cloud
What is beginning of a thunderstorm?
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