Weather Basics
The weather is best described as this.
What is the condition of the atmosphere at a specific time and place?
Ocean currents are large movements of this.
What is ocean water?
Hurricanes form over this type of water.
What is warm ocean water?
Hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones are all this type of storm.
What are tropical cyclones?
This provides the energy that drives Earth’s weather systems.
What is the Sun?
Ocean currents help regulate Earth’s climate by moving this.
What is heat?
A hurricane must have ocean water warmer than this temperature.
What is 26.5°C (80°F)?
A hurricane in the Pacific Ocean is called this.
What is a typhoon?
Air moves from areas of high pressure to areas of this.
What is low pressure?
Warm ocean currents generally move from this region of Earth.
What is the equator?
This part of a hurricane has calm winds and clear skies.
What is the eye?
A hurricane in the Indian Ocean is called this.
What is a cyclone?
Warm air rises because it is this compared to cold air.
What is less dense?
Cold ocean currents usually move toward this part of Earth.
What are the poles?
Hurricanes weaken quickly after moving over this.
What is land or cooler water?
These storms rotate counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere because of this effect.
What is the Coriolis effect?
This tool is used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
his current helps keep Western Europe warmer than expected.
What is the Gulf Stream?
This scale is used to measure hurricane strength.
What is the Saffir-Simpson scale?
Despite different names, hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones are the same because of this.
What is they form the same way but in different locations?