Severe Weather
A severe weather event that typically has lots of rain, wind, and lightning.
What is a thunderstorm?
Name at least 2 factors of climate
What is latitude, ocean currents, mountains, large bodies of water?
Name at least 2 major climate types.
What is temperate, polar, dry, tropical, continental?
The main difference between climate and weather.
What is the length of time?
The phenomena of one air mass replacing another.
What is wind?
A sound caused by the rapid expansion of air along an electrical strike
What is thunder?
A event that causes a rainforest on one side of a mountain and a desert on the other.
What is the rain shadow effect?
The climate of Paraguay.
What is tropical/sub-tropical?
The two items that climate and weather both focus on when determining forecast.
What is temperature and precipitation?
A climate factor that affects an area by increasing/decreasing the temperature of the air over the water.
What is large bodies of water and ocean currents?
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 a tornado?
The result of higher elevation.
What is get colder?
A climate zone typically has very harsh winters and very cold climates.
What is a polar climate?
In weather, the amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
A landform that affects climate by causing air to rise.
What are mountains?
A severe storm that develops over tropical oceans and whose strong winds of more than 120 km/h spiral in toward intensely low pressure storm center.
What is a hurricane?
The cause of warmer temperatures at the equator.
What is more direct solar energy?
The type of front that brings cooler temperatures and typically thunderstorms.
What is a cold front?
A result of extra greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
What is climate change?
A natural disaster caused by the shaking of the Earth and not classified as a severe "weather" event.
What is an earthquake?
A climate type as a result of little precipitation.
What is a desert?
A climate zone classified as very hot and humid near the equator.
What is a tropical climate?
What are stratus, cumulus, and cirrus clouds?
Name at least 2 tools used to measure weather and climate.
What is a weather balloon, rain gauge, thermometer, anemometer, or barometer.