Weather

Question 1

Humidity

Answer 1

the state or quality of being humid.

Question 2

Cumulus Cloud

Answer 2

Cumulus clouds are clouds which have flat bases and are often described as “puffy”, “cotton-like” or “fluffy” in appearance. Their name derives from the Latin cumulo-, meaning heap or pile.

Question 3

Stratus Cloud

Answer 3

Stratus clouds are low-level clouds characterized by horizontal layering with a uniform base, as opposed to convective or cumuliform clouds that are formed by rising thermals.

Question 4

Cirrus Cloud

Answer 4

Cirrus is a genus of high cloud made of ice crystals. Cirrus clouds typically appear delicate and wispy with white strands. Cirrus are usually formed as warm, dry air rises, causing water vapor deposition onto rocky or metallic dust particles at high altitudes.

Question 5

Cumulonimbus Cloud

Answer 5

Cumulonimbus is a dense, towering vertical cloud, forming from water vapor carried by powerful upward air currents. If observed during a storm, these clouds may be referred to as thunderheads. Cumulonimbus can form alone, in clusters, or along cold front squall lines

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 of turning from liquid into vapor.

Question 8

Precipitation

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Runoff

Answer 9

the draining away of water (or substances carried in it) from the surface of an area of land, a building or structure, etc.

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

air coming originally from polar regions but having humidity and temperature properties modified by passing over relatively warm oceans.

Question 15

Tropical – Maritime Airmass

Answer 15

air of a mass originating over tropical oceans and characterized by high temperature and humidity

Question 16

Polar – Continental Airmass

Answer 16

This air mass often brings the rattleing cold, dry and clear weather on a perfect winter day and also dry and warm weather on a pleasant day in summer.

Question 17

Tropical – Continental Airmass

Answer 17

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, which is the major source of these air masses.

Question 18

Cold Front

Answer 18

the boundary of an advancing mass of cold air, in particular the trailing edge of the warm sector of a low-pressure system.

Question 19

Warm Front

Answer 19

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

the occurrence of a natural electrical discharge of very short duration and high voltage between a cloud and the ground or within a cloud, accompanied by a bright flash and typically also thunder.

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.