Hurricanes
Tornadoes
Thunderstorms
High and Low Pressure Areas
Vocab
100
What is the lowest speed that a hurricane travels at?
What is 74 mph
100
What is the average diameter of a tornado?
What is less than 200 meters
100
Where do the negative charges occur?
What is the bottom of a storm cloud
100
What kind of air can you find in a high-pressure center?
What is cold, stable air
100
High-altitude fast-moving winds.
What is a jet stream
200
What is the calmest part of a hurricane?
What is the eye
200
How long does a tornado last?
What is 10 to 20 minutes
200
What do an updraft and downdraft form?
What is a storm cell
200
Where are low-pressure centers created?
What is near Earth's surface
200
A line on a weather map that connects places with the same atmospheric pressure.
What is an isobar
300
What are hurricanes rated with?
What is the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale
300
How fast can a tornado's wind speed get up to?
What is 400 kilometers per hour
300
Why do thunderstorms occur?
What is because of convection in the atmosphere
300
Why do the air masses move in curved paths?
What is due to the Coriolis effect
300
A tropical cyclone
What is a hurricane
400
How warm must the water be for a hurricane to form? (Celsius)
What is 27 degrees Celsius
400
What pressure center is a tornado near?
What is a low-pressure center
400
Where are the places that lightning occur?
What is between two clouds or between a cloud and the ground
400
How can you tell if there are high-pressure centers around?
What is fair weather and blue skies
400
A low-pressure center surrounded by rotating winds
What is a cyclone
500
What is the worst type of hurricane?
What is category 5
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How fast does a tornado travel on the ground?
What is 40 to 60 kph
500
If you hear thunder 10 seconds after you see lightning, how many miles away is the storm?
What is 2 miles
500
Where do winds rotate clockwise and where do they rotate counter-clockwise?
What is clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the southern hemisphere
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A convection cell within a cloud.
What is a storm cell
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