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Weather Vocbulary
Diagraphs
Thunder
Rose
Weather Vocab. Cont.
Graphs
100
The general or average weather conditions of a certain region, including temperature, rainfall, and wind.
What is climate?
100
a pair of characters used to write one phoneme (distinct sound)
What is a diagraph?
100
a humorous story that tells about exaggerated or impossible events.
What is a tall tale?
100
A violently rotating column of air extending from a cumulonimbus cloud to the earth, ranging in width from a few meters to more than a kilomete and whirling at speeds between 40 mph and 316 mph.
What is a tornado?
100
a graphic representation of quantitative information by means of a circle divided into sectors, in which the relative sizes of the areas (or central angles) of the sectors correspond to the relative sizes or proportions of the quantities.
What is a circle graph?
200
A storm of heavy rain accompanied by lightning, thunder, wind, and sometimes hail. Occur when moist air near the ground becomes heated, especially in the summer, and rises, forming cumulonimbus clouds that produce precipitation.
What is a thunderstorm
200
Name a word that contains the diagraph /ch/
examples: cheese, chase, cheddar
200
As a baby girl she drank....
milk straight from a cow.
200
An opening in the Earth's crust from which lava, ash, and hot gases flow or are ejected during an eruption.
What is a volcano?
200
a graph using parallel bars of varying lengths.
What is bar graph?
300
A measure of relative position north or south on the Earth's surface, measured in degrees from the equator.
What is latitude.
300
Name a word that contains the diagraph sh.
Examples: sheep, shoes, shore
300
Once, Rose calmed to churning...
tornadoes
300
A severe, rotating tropical storm with heavy rains and cyclonic winds exceeding 74 mph.
What is a hurricane?
300
When is a bar graph used?
to illustrate comparative costs, exports, birth-rates, etc.
400
A measure of relative position east or west on the Earth's surface, given in degrees from a certain median.
What is longitude?
400
Name a word that contains the diagraph th.
Examples: thorn, booth, theater
400
At age 12 she constructed....
a building out of iron and wood
400
An abornaml rise in the level of the sea along a coast caused by the onshore winds of a severe cyclone.
What is a storm surge?
400
a graph in which data points are joined by straight lines
What is a line graph?
500
Any of the dark, irregular spots that usually appear in groups on the surface of the sun, lasting from a few days to several weeks or more.
What is sun spots
500
Name a word that contains the diagraph /ph/
Examples: phone, phonics, elephant
500
Rose had ________ running through her veins
Thunder
500
An increae in the average temperature of the Earth's atomosphere, especially a sustained increase great enough to cause changes in the global climate.
What is global warming?
500
When is a line graph used?
To show how something changes over time.