Weather

Question 1

Humidity

Answer 1

a quantity representing the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere or in a gas.

Question 2

Cumulus Cloud

Answer 2

detached, individual, cauliflower-shaped clouds usually spotted in fair weather conditions.

Question 3

Stratus Cloud

Answer 3

low-level layers with a fairly uniform grey or white colour.

Question 4

Cirrus Cloud

Answer 4

short, detached, hair-like clouds found at high altitudes

Question 5

Cumulonimbus Cloud

Answer 5

menacing looking multi-level clouds, extending high into the sky in towers or plumes.

Question 6

Condensation

Answer 6

water which collects as droplets on a cold surface when humid air is in contact with it.

Question 7

Evaporation

Answer 7

the process by which water changes from a liquid to a gas or vapor.

Question 8

Precipitation

Answer 8

the action or process of precipitating a substance from a solution.

Question 9

Runoff

Answer 9

a further competition, election, race, etc., after a tie or inconclusive result.

Question 10

Rain

Answer 10

moisture condensed from the atmosphere that falls visibly in separate drops.

Question 11

Sleet

Answer 11

a form of precipitation consisting of ice pellets, often mixed with rain or snow.

Question 12

Snow

Answer 12

atmospheric water vapor frozen into ice crystals and falling in light white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer.

Question 13

Hail

Answer 13

pellets of frozen rain which fall in showers from cumulonimbus clouds.

Question 14

Polar – Maritime Airmass

Answer 14

Polar maritime is the most common air mass to affect the British Isles.

Question 15

Tropical – Maritime Airmass

Answer 15

Tropical maritime air is warm and moist in its lowest layers

Question 16

Polar – Continental Airmass

Answer 16

Continental polar (cP) or continental arctic (cA) air masses are cold, dry, and stable.

Question 17

Tropical – Continental Airmass

Answer 17

Continental Tropical air masses (cT) are a type of tropical air produced by the subtropical ridge over large areas of land and typically originate from low-latitude deserts such as the Sahara Desert in northern Africa

Question 18

Cold Front

Answer 18

A cold weather front is defined as the changeover region where a cold air mass is replacing a warmer air mass.

Question 19

Warm Front

Answer 19

A warm front is the boundary between a mass of warm air and a retreating mass of cold air.

Question 20

Thunderstorm

Answer 20

a storm with thunder and lightning and typically also heavy rain or hail.

Question 21

Lightning

Answer 21

Lightning is a giant spark of electricity in the atmosphere between clouds, the air, or the ground.

Question 22

Thunder

Answer 22

a loud rumbling or crashing noise heard after a lightning flash due to the expansion of rapidly heated air.

Question 23

Tornado

Answer 23

a mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system.

Question 24

Hurricane

Answer 24

a storm with a violent wind, in particular a tropical cyclone in the Caribbean.

Question 25

Thermometer

Answer 25

an instrument for measuring and indicating temperature, typically one consisting of a narrow, hermetically sealed glass tube marked with graduations and having at one end a bulb containing mercury or alcohol that expands and contracts in the tube with heating and cooling.

Question 26

Anemometer

Answer 26

an instrument for measuring the speed of the wind, or of any current of gas.