Terms
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is Humidity?
The average weather pattern of a region.
What is climate?
A rainstorm with both lightning and thunder.
What is a thunderstorm?
A map that shows the weather in a specific area at a specific point in time.
What is a weather map?
The force put on a given area by the weight of the air above it.
What is Air Pressure?
What the troposphere is like at any given place and time.
What is Weather?
A rotating funnel shaped cloud with speeds up to 500 kilometers per hour.
What is a tornado?
An ocean movement; a large stream of water that flows in the ocean.
What is a current?
A large region of the atmosphere in which the air has similar properties.
What is air mass?
A wind that blows steadily in a predictable direction over long distances.
What is a global wind?
The boundary between two air masses.
What is a front?
A very large, swirling storm with very low pressure at the center, and wind speeds greater than 119 km.h.
What is a hurricane?
The atmospheric layer of gases that is closest to Earth’s surface.
What is the troposphere?
The dry area on the leeward side of a mountain.
A snowstorm with 35 mile per hour winds and enough snowfall that you can only see up to one quarter of a mile.
What is a blizzard?
A bulge of water in the ocean caused by hurricane waves and winds.
What is a storm surge?
A device for measuring air pressure.
What is a barometer?
The amount of the Sun’s energy that reaches Earth.
What is insolation?
Any storm with -a low-pressure center that causes a circular pattern of winds to form.
What is a cyclone?
A change in weather conditions caused by the sinking of the cold current in the Pacific Ocean. Higher tides, heavy rains, and storms occur along the coasts of North and South America.
What is El Nino?