5D: Weather Watch Flashcards
What is a cloud made of?
The collection of water vapour, droplets, smoke, dust, and even ice crystals in the sky.
What is the study of weather called?
Meteorology.
What is a Chinook?
A dry, warm strong wind that blows down the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.
What is precipitation?
What the moisture that falls out of clouds is called. Can occur in the form of rain, snow, sleet, hail, etc.
Why do we have different seasons?
Because of the earth’s position in relation to the sun causing each area of earth to receive different amounts of sun at different times of the year.
What is a Beaufort Wind Scale?
It’s is a system of estimating and reporting wind speeds based the visible effects upon land objects and/or sea surfaces.
A measure of the amount of moisture in the air relative to the amount the air can possibly hold at that temperature; expressed as a percentage, is called what?
Relative Humidity.
What is hail?
A form of precipitation that is round or irregular lumps of ice formed by movement of ice through various levels of the atmosphere.
What does an anemometer measure?
It measures the wind speed in km/h.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
The heating effect of the Earth’s atmosphere.
Super cooled rain that freezes onto cold surfaces upon contact, is what?
Sleet.
What is an avalanche?
A large amount of of snow, ice, or rock etc.., that slides down a mountain.
What is weather?
The condition of the atmosphere with respect to heat/cold, wetness/dryness, and clearness/cloudiness at the exact moment.
Can change day to day, or even hourly.
What is a tornado?
A funnel cloud with spinning columns of air dropping down from a severe thunderstorm to touch the ground and cause severe damage.
What is a wind vane?
An instrument that measures the direction of wind. (N,E,S,W)
What does a barometer measure?
Air pressure, measured in kilo-pascals.
What is an overcast?
When a widespread layer of clouds covers all of the sky; may be thin or bright spots in the cloud layer, but no openings.
What weather usually comes with nimbus clouds?
Snow or rain/thunderstorm.
What is a nimbostratus cloud?
A low rain cloud.
What is the water cycle? What are 4 key stages?
The continuous cycle that water follows including evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and run-off.
What is it called when a liquid changes into a gas via heating?
Evaporation.
What does condense mean?
When a gas is turned into a liquid by heating.
What is a forecast?
An estimate of future weather.