Tropical Cyclone

Question 1

Adiabatic
heating

Answer 1

Occurs when air descends and compresses, resulting in very little
precipitation.

Question 2

Adiabatic lapse
rate

Answer 2

Is the rate at which the temperature of an air parcel changes in
response to the compression or expansion associated with elevation
change, under the assumption that the process is adiabatic, i.e., no
heat exchange occurs between the given air parcel and its
surroundings.

Question 3

Coriolis force

Answer 3

A force caused by the rotation of the earth which results in the
deflection of the winds and ocean currents. Deflection is to the right
in the northern and to the left in the southern hemisphere.

Question 4

Dissipate

Answer 4

Is to break up or disappear or weakening

Question 5

Eye

Answer 5

The calm area at the centre of a tropical cyclone

Question 6

Eyewall

Answer 6

The walls of cumulonimbus cloud which surround the eye of a
tropical cyclone.

Question 7

Latent heat

Answer 7

The heat or energy that is absorbed or released during a phase
change of a substance. It could either be from a gas to a liquid or
liquid to solid.

Question 8

Make landfall

Answer 8

The term used to describe the arrival of the eye of a tropical cyclone
over the coast.

Question 9

Storm surge

Answer 9

An abnormal rise of water along the coast associated with a low-pressure system as a tropical cyclone.

Question 10

Tropical
Cyclone:

Answer 10

A powerful, rotating storm system, around a low-pressure cell which
develops over a warm ocean between the tropics. the eye moves
over land.

Question 11

Tropical
cyclone landfall

Answer 11

A tropical cyclone is classified as making a landfall when the centre
of the storm moves across the coast, in strong tropical cyclones.

Question 12

Vortex

Answer 12

A mass of spinning air that attracts more air to its centre.

Question 13

Water spout

Answer 13

It is a weak tornado that forms at sea in association with the storm
clouds of a tropical cyclone.