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Severe Weather
Climate
Climate Zones
Weather and Climate
Climate Factors
100
What is a usually brief, have storm that consists of rain, strong winds, lightning and thunder?
What is a thunderstorm
100
Name the 5 factors of climate
What is latitiude, ocean currents, prevailing winds, mountains, large bodies of water
100

Name  three of the climate zones in the world?

What is tropical, temperate, and polar

100
What is the main difference between climate and weather?
What is the lenth of time
100
What factor affects the climate of an area by the amount of moisture they carry to that area?
What is prevailing winds
200
what is the sound caused by the rapid expansion of air along an electrical strike
What is thunder
200

Which climate factor creates a wet side biome and a dry side biome?

What is the Rain Shadow Effect?

200

Which climate zone do we have here in North Carolina?

What is humid subtropical?

200
Name the two items that climate and weather both focus on when determining forecast?
What is temperature and precipitation
200

What causes an oceanic climate?

What is large bodies of water and ocean currents

300
what is a destructive, rotating column of air that has very high wind speeds, is visible as a funnel-shaped cloud, and touches the ground?
What is tornado
300
HIGHER Elevation usually cause the temperateture to do what?
What is get colder
300
Which climate zone typically has very harsh winters and very cold climates?
What is polar
300
In weather, what is the amount of water vapor in the air called?
What is humidity
300

Which geographic feature affects climate by causing air to rise, also known as orographic lift?

What are mountains?

400
what is a severe storm that develops over tropical oceans and whose strong winds pf more than 120 km/h spiral in toward intensely low pressure storm center?
What is hurricane
400
Why is the climate warmer at the equator?
What is more solar energy is absorbed
400

What climate zone has moderate winters and summers?

What is temperate

400
What type of front is created when a warm air front is caught between two cold air fronts?
What is occluded front
400

Which latitude would have a cooler summer, 0 degrees or 45 degrees?

What is 45 degrees

500

Name one place where you are most likely to find a hurricane and one place you are most likely to find a tornado?

What are the ocean and the Great Plains? 

500

Prevailing winds that form over continents produce what kind of air? What type of climate might be found?

What is dry air; desert.

500
What climate zone is very hot and is found near the equator?
What is tropical
500
What front is created when cold air moves under the warm up pushing it up?
What is cold front
500
What causes seasons on Earth?
What is the tilt of the Earth