Moisture
Winds
Air Pressure
Hurricanes
Heating the Earth
100
Moisture in the air.
What is humidty
100
When the wind blows from the water to land later in the day.
What is a sea breeze?
100
The force of air pressing down on the earth's surface.
What is air pressure?
100
What is the first stage of a Hurricanes life cycle.
What is a tropical depression?
100
The process by which carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere form a "heat blanket" around the earth.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
200
The amount of water(humidity) in the air relative to the amount of water that the air could hold.
What is Relative Humidity?
200
Narrow belts of strong, high speed winds above 12 km.
What are jet streams?
200
An instrumwent that measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
200
The number of categories by which a hurricane can be rated.
What are five categories.
200
The transfer of heat energy in a fluid.
What is convection?
300
The difference between the wet-bulb and dry-bulb temperatures.
What is Wet-Bulb Depression?
300
An instrument used to measure wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
300
Air pressure increases.
What happens when air temperature decreases?
300
Cyclone, Typhoon, Hurricane
What are names for the same type of storms.
300
The transfer of heat energy through empty space.
What is radiation?
400
An instrument used to measure relative humidity.
What is a psychrometer?
400
The shift in winds due to the rotation of the earth.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
400
Where do Hurricanes develop?
What is near the equator.
400
The major source of heat energy on planet earth,
What is the sun?
500
Hail, Rain, Sleet, Freezing Rain, etc.
What are types of precipitation?
500
The difference in air pressure due to the earth's unequal heating.
What is the cause of winds?
500
Oceanic and atmospheric conditions.
What are the major role players in hurricane development?
500
The direct transfer of heat energy from one substance to another.
What is conduction
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