Weather/Currents
Tornado
Hurricane
Fronts
Weather
100
Air in motion.
What is wind?
100
A violent, whirling column of air in contact with the ground.
What is a Tornado?
100
An intense tropical storm with winds exceeding 119 km/h
What is a Hurricane?
100
This symbol
What is a cold front weather symbol?
100
Amount of water vapor in the air.
What is Humidity?
200
Wind that blows from a large body of water toward or onto a landmass.
What is a sea breeze?
200
Where a tornado forms.
What is land?
200
The middle of a hurricane.
What is The Eye of the Hurricane?
200
A boundary between two air masses.
What is a front?
200
A scientist that studies the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
300
Winds that flow towards the equator from east to west.
What are trade winds?
300
A tornado forms.
What happens when arm moist air meets cool dry air?
300
Where hurricanes form.
What is over tropical waters.
300
When a cold front or a warm front has very little movement or stops moving.
What is a stationary front?
300
The movement of a liquid or a gas in a spiral around a central axis.
What is a vortex?
400
When trade winds push warm water west-cooler water along North and South America rises. This rising water brings rich nutrients to the surface feeding fish and marine life.
What is upwelling?
400
When updrafts quickly freeze in the atmosphere, THIS is flung from a tornado.
Hail
400
The scale used to measure a hurricane's damage.
What is Saffir-Simpson Scale
400
Kind of front
What is an Occluded Front?
400
The force that a column of air applies on the air or a surface below it.
What is Air Pressure?
500
The ocean current system which results in huge energy exchanges due to differences in temperature and density (salinity).
What is The Great Ocean Conveyor Belt?
500
Scale tornado danger is measured on.
What is the Fujita intensity scale?
500
The area that surrounds the eye of a hurricane.
What is the eye wall?
500
When a cold air mass replaces a warmer air mass.
What is a cold front?
500
The circulating flow of air that results from temperature differences.
What is a convection current?