Elements of Weather and Climate/ Rainfall and Temperature Graph
On a graph what is temperature represented by?
What is a line graph?
The process of water vapour moving up into the atmosphere?
What is evaporation?
What are two characteristics that influence tropical marine climates?
What is sunshsine and the ocean?
Where two winds meet affecting the southern Caribbean.
What is the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone?
On a graph is rainfall represented by?
What is bar graph?
What is the name of the dominant winds in the Caribbean?
What is North East Trade Wind?
Which season extends from June to December?
What is the wet season?
The scale used to classify hurricanes is refered to as
What is a Saffir Simpson Scale?
What is the unit of measurement for water vapour in the atmosphere?
What is %?
What of rainfall occurs in the early afternoon?
What is convectional rainfall?
Which weather system generally affects the windward islands?
What is a tropical wave/ hurricane?
What are two main factors that influence the development of a hurricane?
What are heat and water?
What is used to measure air pressure?
What is a barmometre?
Two types of rainfall that can occur any time of year.
What is convectional rainfall and relief rainfall?
Which weather system comes from North America during the winter and affects mainly northern Caribbean islands?
What is a Cold Front?
What are the names of the clouds in a hurricane's feeder bands and eyewall?
What are cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds?
Which weather instrument has both alcohol and mercury?
What is a thermometer?
With regards to relief rainfall, the leeward side receives less rainfall as a result of descending air. What is the name of this side?
What is the rain shadow?
When there is low pressure over the land during the day and high pressure over the sea. This brings?
What are sea breezes?
What are two weather conditions experienced at the eye of a hurricane?
What are no clouds, no precipitation, higher pressure, little to no wind?