The layer of atmosphere where most weather takes place is the stratosphere.
What is the troposphere?
100
Hurricanes born in the Atlantic are usually formed where?
Where is the west coast of Africa
100
The state of the air at a certain time and place
What is weather?
100
Most common type of storm
What is a thunderstorm?
100
Narrow bands of very fast, high-altitude westerly winds
What are jet streams?
200
Current, short-term variations in the atmosphere are referred to as ____.
What is weather?
200
What is the most damaging part of a hurricane?
What is the storm surge?
200
What deflects moving particles such as air to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere. This is caused by Earth’s rotation.
Who is the Coriolis effect?
200
Spinning cloud with a funnel shape
What is a tornado?
200
Systems that lie between the poles and about 60° latitude in both hemispheres
What are polar easterlies?
300
A weather instrument that measures the height of clouds and estimates the amount of cloud cover is a(n) ____.
What is ceilometer?
300
The Coriolis effect is due to the ____ of Earth.
What is the Earth's rotation
300
Instrument that shows wind direction
What is a wind vane?
300
Violent, damaging thunderstorm wind that is concentrated in a local area is referred to as a....
What is a downburst?
300
Conditions of Continental tropical (southwestern desert of the United States) air masses
What is warm and dry?
400
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets
What is condensation?
400
An eye wall is.....
What is band where the strongest winds in a hurricane are?
400
Measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
400
What is the name of the part of the US that gets lots of tornadoes?
What is tornado alley?
400
What are the conditions of Maritime tropical (Gulf of Mexico)
What is warm humid?
500
How is air heated in the upper troposphere?
What is convection?
500
A category 1 hurricane has wind speed ranges of.....
What 74-95 mph?
500
A balloon-borne package of sensors that gathers upper-level temperature, air pressure, and humidity is ____.
What is a radiosonde?
500
A tornado watch means....
What is conditions are right for a tornado to form?