Weather or Climate
Climate or weather
Natural Disasters
Global patterns
Vocabulary
100

This instrument is used to measure air pressure.

What is a barometer?

100

The sun's rays are least direct here....

What are near the poles?

100

What is a funnel shaped cloud that can touch the Earth's surface called?

What is a tornado?
100

What heats faster, land or water?

What is land?

100
What is the amount of water vapor in a given volume of air called?

What is humidity?

200

Fast moving molecules are associated with...

What is higher temperatures?

200

This type of air can hold more water vapor.

What is warm?

200

This happens when holes in the ground form when a cave collapses.

What is a sinkhole?

200

Differences in this produces winds, jet stream, and ocean currents.

What is heating differences in the Earth's surface?

200

The boundary where unlike air masses meet but do not mix is called..

What is front?
300

Fairbanks, Alaska typically receives 130 to 180 cm of snow each year describes....

What is the climate

300

This happens to air pressure as you rise up in the atmosphere....

What is decreases?

300

This describes a long period of little rainfall.

What is a drought?

300

Winds form due to this?

What is the unequal heating of Earth's surface?

300

The distance in degrees north or south of the equator is called?

What is latitude?

400

Orlando is usually hot and humid during the summer months describes this...

What is climate?

400

These two factors are used to classify climate....

What are temperature and precipitation?

400

This typically forms over warm ocean water.

What is a hurricane?

400

Streams of water that move warm or cool water are called?

What are ocean currents?

400

The temperature at which condensation begins?

What is Dew point?

500

Miami will have a high of 85 degrees with a 10% chance of precipitation describes this....

What is Weather?

500

Cool air tends to be more dense or less dense than warm air?

What is more dense ?

500
What two things are major causes of flooding in Florida? 

What are storm surge and large amounts of rainfall?

500

A narrow band of high speed winds are called?

What is a jet stream?

500

The height above sea level is called..

What is elevation?