Radiation
When radiation bounces off of an object at the same angle that it hit, which results in no exchange in energy.
What is Reflection?
Movement of the Earth on its axis, which causes day and night.
What is Rotation?
Lasts from June to November.
What is hurricane season?
Three measurements of weather on a station model that can indicate an approaching hurricane.
What are Wind Direction/Speed, Air Pressure, and Cloud Cover?
This type of pressure has cold dense air, clear skies, and generally calm conditions.
What is high pressure?
When radiation and energy is split up in all directions. This produces the blue skies during the daytime.
What is Scattering?
Movement of the Earth around the Sun, which takes approximately 365.25 days to complete.
What is Revolution?
Warm, deep tropical waters.
What promotes hurricane development?
The general climate zone close to the equator that hurricanes form in?
What are the Tropics?
This type of pressure has warm moist air, cloudy skies, and produces stormy conditions.
What is low pressure?
When energy is taken in by the molecules of an object or surface, such as the atmosphere, clouds, the oceans, or the land.
What is Absorption?
When the the Sun's direct rays are over the equator and the entire world receives 12 hours of day and 12 hours of night.
What is the Equinox? (Spring or Fall)
Dome of water that sweeps across the coast when a hurricane makes landfall.
What is a storm surge?
The names of the coordinates used to plot and track a hurricane on a map?
What are Latitude and Longitude?
The absorption of infrared radiation by gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in the lower atmosphere which results in a raising of the Earth's average global temperature.
What is the greenhouse effect?
The type of longwave radiation that the Earth gives off as it absorbs energy from the Sun during the day.
What is Infared Radiaton?
When the the Sun's direct rays are over the Tropic of Cancer and the Northern Hemisphere is titled towards the Sun.
What is the Summer Solstice (June 21st)
The scale used to categorize hurricanes?
What is the Saffir-Simpson Scale?
The direciton that the wind blows around the Eye of a hurricane in the Northen Hemisphere?
What is Counter-Clockwise?
Type of heat transfer where molecules bump into one another.
What is Conduction?
The type of shortwave radiation that the Sun gives off that is harmfull to all living things if exposed to in high enough concentrations.
What is Ultra Violet?
When the the Sun's direct rays are over the Tropic of Capricorn and the Northern Hemisphere is titled away from the Sun.
What is the Winter Solstice? (December 21st)
Where are the strongest winds of a hurricane found?
What is the eye wall.
The name of the red cone that meteorologist use to show the potential track of the hurricanes eye over the course of several days.
What is the Cone of Uncertainty?
The primary type of heat transfer in our atmosphere where warm air rises and cool air sinks as a result of the differential heating of the Earth.
What is convection?