The water cycle
Term for water turning into gas
What is evaporation
Side of mountain that gets all the rain?
What is the Windward side.
The term for 2 or molecules rubbing rapidly together?
What is friction.
L
Low pressure
Type of Thunderstorm that can produces most tornadoes?
What is a Supercell.
Term for gas turning from a gas back to a liquid.
What is condensation
Side of mountain that is dry and arid?
What is the Leeward side. ( Rainshadow is also acceptable)
Temp of lightning?
50,000 degrees. 5x hotter than the Sun.
H
High pressure
I am the product of a severe storm- I can be the size of a pea or the size of a softball and destroy your car.
What is Hail.
Term for rain, snow, or sleet falling from the sky?
What is percipitation.
This is the effect of the clouds being forced up the side of the mountain and loose their water before going over them?
What is the Orographic effect.
4 types of lightning must name all 4
1) Cloud to Cloud
2) Cloud to ground
3) Cloud to air
4) Ground to cloud
Green
Rain
The 3 ingredients for tornadoes?
Cold dry air, Warm moist air, warm dry air.
Responsible for all weather to occur?
What is the Sun.
2 places where Thunderstorms do not occur? Must name both!
What is the Artic circle and Antarctica
State in the U.S. that has the most lightning strikes?
What is Florida ( precisely 4 corners, FL)
Pink
Sleet/icy mix
While Tornado Alley is the largest alley, this is the second largest one.
What is Dixie Alley.
These hold most of the fresh water supply for the world?
What are Glaciers
The example of Sublimation? ( a solid turning directly to a gas and not entering a liquid state is)
What is Dry Ice.
Country that is the lightning strike capitol of the world?
What is Venezuela (Lake Maracaibo)
Changing colors within a pocket of weather represents what about the weather?
What is Intensity
He invented the scale for a tornadoes destruction.
Who is Fujita.