Weather And Climate Vocobulary Flashcards
Air Pressure
Air pressure is the weight of air molecules pressing down on the Earth.
Tropical
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.
Celsius
Celsius is a scale for measuring temperature, in which water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees.
Cumulus Cloud
Cumulus clouds are detached, individual, cauliflower-shaped clouds usually spotted in fair weather conditions.
Thermometer
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.
Tropical Depression
A tropical cyclone that has maximum sustained surface winds (one-minute average) of 38 mph (33 knots) or less.
Ocean current
Ocean currents are the continuous, predictable, directional movement of seawater driven by gravity, wind (Coriolis Effect), and water density.
Dew Point
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.
Hurricane
A hurricane is a tropical storm with winds that have reached a constant speed of 74 miles per hour or more.
Desert
A desert is an area of land that receives no more than 25 centimeters (10 inches) of precipitation a year.
Typhoon
A tropical cyclone is an intense circular storm that originates over warm tropical oceans.
Humidity
Humidity is the amount of water vapor in the air.
Forecast
to calculate or predict (some future event or condition) usually as a result of study and analysis of available pertinent data.
Atmosphere
An atmosphere is made of the layers of gases surrounding a planet or other celestial body.
Hail
Hail is supercooled water, which is refrozen in the atmosphere, before falling back to the ground as a sizable ice ball.
Thunderstorm
Thunderstorm - A rain-bearing cloud that also produces lightning. All thunderstorms are dangerous.
Cloud
A cloud is a mass of tiny water drops or ice crystals that floats in the air above Earth.
Precipitation
Precipitation is water released from clouds in the form of rain, freezing rain, sleet, snow, or hail. I
Drought
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.
Front
A front is a boundary between two air masses of different densities.
Meteorology
Meteorology is the science dealing with the atmosphere and its phenomena, including both weather and climate.
Freezing Point
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.
Tornado
Tornado - A violently rotating column of air touching the ground, usually attached to the base of a thunderstorm.
Cumulonimbus Cloud
Cumulonimbus clouds are menacing looking multi-level clouds, extending high into the sky in towers or plumes.
Thunder
Thunder is the sound made by a flash of lightning.
Weather
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.
Waterspout
A waterspout is a whirling column of air and water mist.
Barometer
Barometric pressure is a measure of the weight of the atmosphere pressing down on the Earth’s surface.
Global Warming
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.”
Temperature
temperature is a degree of hotness or coldness measured by a thermometer with a numerical scale. thermodynamics. noun.
Barometer Pressure
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.
Funnel Cloud
A funnel cloud is a cone-shaped cloud which extends from the base of a cloud towards the ground without actually reaching the surface.
Climate
climate is the description of the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area.
