Instruments
What instrument do meteorologists use to measure the distance from the ground to the base of clouds?
What is a ceilometer
What is a map that summarizes the weather conditions throughout the entire country at a single point in time?
What is a surface weather chart
What is the convection cell that exists between the equator and latitude 30°?
What is a Hadley cell
What is liquid precipitation that is between 0.2 mm and 0.5 mm in diameter?
What is drizzle
What is a large, rotating updraft in a supercell thunderstorm?
What is a mesocyclone
What is the advantage of Doppler weather radar over older radar systems?
What is the ability to measure precipitation
What is the boundary formed when a cold air mass moves into the territory of a warm air mass?
What is a cold front
What process occurs when air expands with no heat gained or lost?
What is adiabatic cooling
What is the most abundant gas in the homosphere?
What is nitrogen
Which type of cloud usually produces heavy rains, strong winds, and sometimes hail or tornadoes?
What are cumulonimbus clouds
What scale is used to classify tornadoes?
What is the Enhanced Fujita scale
What process traps heat in Earth's atmosphere?
What is the greenhouse effect
In meteorology, what is the farthest distance at which objects can be distinguished called?
What I visibility
What is the air called when the relative humidity is 100%.
What is saturated
What is the most intense type of wind downburst?
What I a microburst
What is the instrument used to measure the lower high-altitude weather conditions?
What is a weather balloon
What extremely powerful radiation heats the molecules of the ionosphere?
What are cosmic rays
What is the coldest point in the atmosphere?
What is the mesopause
What portion of a lightning bolt produces thunder?
What is the return stroke
What is the elevated water level caused by a hurricane's winds?
What is s storm surge
What scale is used to rank hurricane strength?
What is the Saffir-Simpson scale
Which type of drought is defined by its effects on an area's groundwater, streams, lakes, and reservoirs?
What is a hydrological drought
What is the downward stream of electrons that causes a single lightning bolt to make a second strike?
What is a dart leader
What is a wind that reverses its direction from season to season?
What is a monsoon
What is a tropical cyclone with wind speeds between 39 m/h and 74 m/h?
What is a tropical storm