Water Cycle
What are the five parts of the Water Cycle?
The Eye Wall
What is the strongest part of the hurricane?
North America
Which part of the world has the most tornadoes in a year?
The sudden release of strain energy in the Earth's crust.
What is an Earthquake?
This is the largest type of Volcano
Hail, Rain, Snow, Sleet and Ice
What are the forms of Precipitation?
Tropical Depression, Tropical Storm, Hurricane.
What are the steps that a Hurricane goes through as it gets stronger?
A narrow, violently rotating column of air that extends from a thunderstorm to the ground.
What is a Tornado?
When two large rocks collide.
What is a convergent fault?
Openings, or vents where lava, small rocks, and steam erupt onto the Earth's surface.
What is a Volcano?
Water Vapor
What is another term for Evaporation?
The Saffir-Simpson Scale - which rates wind speed.
How are Hurricanes measured?
The Enhanced Fujita Scale.
How are tornadoes measured?
A fracture zone or fractures between two blocks of rock.
What is an Earthquake Fault?
Magma rises from the hot spots and erupts as lava through cracks in the Earth's surface.
How are volcanoes formed?
This happens when water vapor is cooled.
Condensation
Category 3 or higher.
What is a major hurricane?
The winds of this peculiar storm could be as high as 300 mph.
How fast can the winds of a tornado go?
This is used to measure the intensity of earthquakes.
What is the Richter Scale?
The most common type of volcano, and the fastest growing.
What is a cindercone volcano?
This heats the water on Earth.
What is the Sun?
Cyclones
What are Hurricanes called in the Pacific Ocean?
A Tornado Watch means tornadoes are possible in your area. A Tornado Warning means a tornado has been sighted or indicated by weather radar — time to take cover!
What is the difference between a tornado watch and a tornado warning?
A Transform boundary
What is it called when two large pieces of rock rub against each other?
Provide fertile soil and add mountains to the landscape
What are some good things that volcanoes do?