Thunderstorms
Tornadoes
Hurricanes
Blizzards
Vocab Grab Bag
100
This is formed when a charge sparks between clouds or a cloud to the ground
What is lightning?
100
A tornado can be defined as a violently rotating ___________ of air.
What is column?
100
The center of a hurricane is called the _______
What is the eye?
100
Winter storms are part of this type of pressure systems.
What is low pressure?
100
A scientist who studies weather can be called this term.
What is a meteorologist?
200
These two conditions are required for a storm to be classified as a thunderstorm.
What is thunder and lightning?
200
In a tornado, air moves in this motion.
What is up and down?
200
The eye of a hurricane is calm because air is moving in this direction.
What is downward?
200
These two types of air mass is responsible for winter storms.
What is polar continental?
200
To look at the similarities in air pressure on a map, you would view this type of line graph.
What is an isobar?
300
Thunderstorms get their energy from this kind of air.
What is humid?
300
A tornado becomes visible when these appear below the cloud in the center of the column.
What is water droplets?
300
Warm ocean water provides the energy for this type of pressure center to turn into a violent, hurricane-like storm.
What is low-pressure?
300
This type of air rises very quickly to form a stormy low-pressure system.
What is moist?
300
These types of storms can form near the equator and have winds that blow 40 mph or more.
What is a tropical storm?
400
In the initial formation of a thunderstorm, rising humid air forms this type of cloud.
What is a cumulus cloud?
400
Tornadoes typically arise from this kind of storm
What is a thunderstorm?
400
To be classified as a hurricane, wind speeds must be at least this many miles per hour.
What is 74?
400
These are blinding snow storms with winds at least 35 miles per hour.
What is a blizzard?
400
Hurricanes can also be referred to as these two terms depending on where they form.
What is a typhoon or cyclone?
500
This results from the heat wave traveling from lightning to the ground.
What is thunder?
500
Tornadoes can produce all except which of the following: tall clouds, snow, lightning.
What is snow?
500
This is the huge mass of ocean water pushed on land by a hurricane.
What is a storm surge?
500
Lake effect snowstorms take place in this geographical region of America
What are the Great Lakes?
500
The prefix iso means this.
What is single?
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