tornado
What is the average amount of damage that a tornado can cause?
Tornadoes can cause about 400 million dollars in damage and kill about 70 people in damage. Their extremely high winds tear homes and businesses apart. Winds can also destroy bridges, flip trains, send cars and trucks flying, tear the bark off trees.
What is the average damage a hurricane can cause?
Catastrophic wind damage and significant loss of life simply due to the strength of their winds
What layer of the atmosphere contains the ozone layer?
Stratosphere
What does mP stand for?
maritime Polar
What occurs first in the water cycle?
Evaporation
What is the average time limit that a tornado lasts?
from several seconds to more than an hour
How long does a hurricane usually last?
Each hurricane usually lasts for over a week
What is the layer between the exosphere and the mesosphere?
thermosphere
What does cT stand for?
continental Tropical
How do clouds form.
Condensation
How are tornadoes formed?
when warm, humid air collides with cold, dry air
How are hurricanes formed.
When warm moist air over water begins to rise
Meteors burn up in this layer.
Mesosphere
What does cA stand for?
continental Arctic
What is precipitation?
rizzling, rain, sleet, snow, ice pellets, graupel and hail
What is the most dangerous part of a tornado?
The Updraft
What is the most dangerous part of a hurricane?
Storm Surge
The last layer of the atmosphere.
Exosphere
What does mT stand for?
maritime Tropical
What are the steps water cycle?
evaporation, condensation, and precipitation
What are tornadoes?
A violent rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud.
What is a hurricane?
A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and/or squalls.
Layer of the atmosphere where all weather occurs.
Troposphere
What does cT stand for?
continental Tropical
What is the purpose of the water cycle?
It enables the availability of water for all living organisms and regulates weather patterns on our planet.