Weather And Climate Vocobulary

Question 1

Air Pressure

Answer 1

Air pressure is the weight of air molecules pressing down on the Earth.

Question 2

Tropical

Answer 2

of, being, or characteristic of a region or climate that is frost-free with temperatures high enough to support year-round plant growth given sufficient moisture.

Question 3

Celsius

Answer 3

Celsius is a scale for measuring temperature, in which water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees.

Question 4

Cumulus Cloud

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Thermometer

Answer 5

thermometer is an instrument used for measuring and indicating temperature, so, a weather thermometer is used to measure the temperature outside at any given time.

Question 6

Tropical Depression

Answer 6

A tropical cyclone that has maximum sustained surface winds (one-minute average) of 38 mph (33 knots) or less.

Question 7

Ocean current

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Ocean currents are the continuous, predictable, directional movement of seawater driven by gravity, wind (Coriolis Effect), and water density.

Question 8

Dew Point

Answer 8

The dew point is the temperature to which air must be cooled to become saturated with water vapor, assuming constant air pressure and water content.

Question 9

Hurricane

Answer 9

A hurricane is a tropical storm with winds that have reached a constant speed of 74 miles per hour or more.

Question 10

Desert

Answer 10

A desert is an area of land that receives no more than 25 centimeters (10 inches) of precipitation a year.

Question 11

Typhoon

Answer 11

A tropical cyclone is an intense circular storm that originates over warm tropical oceans.

Question 12

Humidity

Answer 12

Humidity is the amount of water vapor in the air.

Question 13

Forecast

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to calculate or predict (some future event or condition) usually as a result of study and analysis of available pertinent data.

Question 14

Atmosphere

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An atmosphere is made of the layers of gases surrounding a planet or other celestial body.

Question 15

Hail

Answer 15

Hail is supercooled water, which is refrozen in the atmosphere, before falling back to the ground as a sizable ice ball.

Question 16

Thunderstorm

Answer 16

Thunderstorm - A rain-bearing cloud that also produces lightning. All thunderstorms are dangerous.

Question 17

Cloud

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A cloud is a mass of tiny water drops or ice crystals that floats in the air above Earth.

Question 18

Precipitation

Answer 18

Precipitation is water released from clouds in the form of rain, freezing rain, sleet, snow, or hail. I

Question 19

Drought

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A drought is defined as “a period of abnormally dry weather sufficiently prolonged for the lack of water to cause serious hydrologic imbalance in the affected area.

Question 20

Front

Answer 20

A front is a boundary between two air masses of different densities.

Question 21

Meteorology

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Meteorology is the science dealing with the atmosphere and its phenomena, including both weather and climate.

Question 22

Freezing Point

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Freezing point is the temperature at which a liquid becomes a solid at normal atmospheric pressure. Alternatively, a melting point is the temperature at which a solid becomes a liquid at normal atmospheric pressure.

Question 23

Tornado

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Tornado - A violently rotating column of air touching the ground, usually attached to the base of a thunderstorm.

Question 24

Cumulonimbus Cloud

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

Question 25

Thunder

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Thunder is the sound made by a flash of lightning.

Question 26

Weather

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Weather is the state of the atmosphere, including temperature, atmospheric pressure, wind, humidity, precipitation, and cloud cover. It differs from climate, which is all weather conditions for a particular location averaged over about 30 years.

Question 27

Waterspout

Answer 27

A waterspout is a whirling column of air and water mist.

Question 28

Barometer

Answer 28

Barometric pressure is a measure of the weight of the atmosphere pressing down on the Earth’s surface.

Question 29

Global Warming

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Global warming is the long-term heating of Earth’s surface observed since the pre-industrial period (between 1850 and 1900) due to human activities, primarily fossil fuel burning, which increases heat-trapping greenhouse gas levels in Earth’s atmosphere. This term is not interchangeable with the term “climate change.”

Question 30

Temperature

Answer 30

temperature is a degree of hotness or coldness measured by a thermometer with a numerical scale. thermodynamics. noun.

Question 31

Barometer Pressure

Answer 31

barometric pressure is the measurement of air pressure in the atmosphere, specifically the measurement of the weight exerted by air molecules at a given point on Earth.

Question 32

Funnel Cloud

Answer 32

A funnel cloud is a cone-shaped cloud which extends from the base of a cloud towards the ground without actually reaching the surface.

Question 33

Climate

Answer 33

climate is the description of the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area.