Weather Stuff
Tornado
Hurricane
Fronts
Weather
100
The area around the equator with little or no wind.
The Doldrum
100
A violent, whirling column of air in contact with the ground.
What is a Tornado?
100
An intense tropical storm with winds exceeding 119 km/h
What is a Hurricane?
100
This symbol
What is a cold front weather symbol?
100
Amount of water vapor in the air.
What is Humidity?
200
THIS is caused by differences in pressure/temperature.
Wind
200
THIS is a measurement of how quickly wind is changing directions.
Wind Shear
200
The middle of a hurricane.
What is The Eye of the Hurricane?
200
Kind of front
What is Warm Front?
200
The temperature at which water freezes.
0 C or 32 F
300
The global, consistent pattern of wind movement is known as...
Trade Winds (Easterlies/Westerlies)
300
Formation of Tornado...
Warm moist air, and cold dry air moving at different directions startings circulating
300
Terrible things that hurricanes can do.
What is Flooding and destroying buildings?
300
A boundary between two air masses.
What is a Front?
300
The amount of water vapor present in the air
What is Humidity
400
Why is pressure at the equator typically LOW?
The sun heating this area.
400
When updrafts quickly freeze in the atmosphere, THIS is flung from a tornado.
Hail
400
Name of hurricane in Asia.
What is typhoon?
400
Kind of front
What is an Occluded Front?
400
The force that a column of air applies on the air or a surface below it.
What is Air Pressure?
500
What does the Coriolis Effect cause (as it relates to weather)?
Clockwise and counter-clockwise storm rotation.
500
Scale tornado danger is measured on.
What is the Fujita intensity scale?
500
Front that a hurricane is created by.
What is a Cold Front?
500
Kind of front
What is a cold front?
500
The scientist that studies the weather.
Meteorologist