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Severe Weather
Climate
Climate Zones
Weather and Climate
100
What is a usually brief, have storm that consists of rain, strong winds, lightning and thunder?
What is a thunderstorm
100

Name the 3 factors of climate

What is temperature, precipitaion, and wind

100

Name  three of the climate zones in the world?

What is tropical, temperate, and polar (arctic)

100
What is the main difference between climate and weather?
What is the lenth of time
200
what is the sound caused by the rapid expansion of air along an electrical strike
What is thunder
200

True or False: weather makes climate

What is True

200

Which climate zone do we have here in Texas?

What is humid subtropical?

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

Instrument used to measure wind speed and direction

What is anemometer

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