Severe Weather
The two main cyclonic weather events
What are hurricanes and tornadoes?
The source of most of Earth's energy.
What is the sun?
The primary cause of seasons.
The cloud cover of an area if the circle in a station model is filled in.
What is 100%?
This equipment is used to determine air pressure.
What is a barometer?
A safety protocol in the event of a hurricane.
What is stocking canned goods, bottled water, and batteries or boarding windows?
The three ways heat energy transfers.
What are conduction, convection, and radiation?
The season experienced during June in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is winter?
This type of pressure system is associated with "bad" weather.
What is low?
The weather anticipated if the relative humidity is close to 100%.
What is precipitation?
The classification system for hurricane severity.
What is the Saffir-Simpson scale?
This type of wave is commonly reradiated from the Earth's surface.
What is infrared?
The term for Earth's movement around the sun.
What is revolution?
The direction most weather travels in the USA.
What is west to east?
The boundary that separates air masses with different moisture and temperatures.
What is a front?
The direction of the swirling winds in a tornado.
What is counterclockwise?
This spectrum is organized by wavelength.
What is electromagnetic?
The length of time for one complete rotation around Earth's axis.
What is ~24 hours?
Water releases the most energy during this phase change.
What is condensation?
The effect that deflects wind to the left in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is Coriolis?
This country experiences the most tornadoes on average in a year.
What is the United States of America?
Temperature changes this much during phase changes.
What is zero degrees?
The distance Earth is from the sun at aphelion.
What is around 94,500,000 miles?
100 degrees is toasty except in this unit.
What is Kelvin?
The difference between climate and weather.
What is the length of time?