Weather Vocabulary

Question 1

Air Pressure

Answer 1

Air pressure is the force per unit of area exerted on the Earth’s surface by the weight of the air above the surface.

Question 2

Tropical

Answer 2

the warm, hot areas located between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.

Question 3

Celsius

Answer 3

Celsius, also called centigrade, scale based on 0° for the freezing point of water and 100° for the boiling point of water.

Question 4

Cumulus Cloud

Answer 4

Cumulus clouds are puffy clouds that sometimes look like pieces of floating cotton.

Question 5

Cirrus Cloud

Answer 5

The most common form of high-level clouds are thin and often wispy cirrus clouds. … Cirrus generally occur in fair weather and point in the direction of air movement at their elevation.

Question 6

Thermometer

Answer 6

A Thermometer measures the air temperature. Most thermometers are closed glass tubes containing liquids such as alcohol or mercury. When air around the tube heats the liquid, the liquid expands and moves up the tube. A scale then shows what the actual temperature is.

Question 7

Tropical Depression

Answer 7

A tropical depression forms when a low pressure area is accompanied by thunderstorms that produce a circular wind flow with maximum sustained winds below 39 mph.

Question 8

Ocean Current

Answer 8

An ocean current is any more or less permanent or continuous, directed movement of ocean water that flows in one of the Earth’s oceans.

Question 9

Dew Point

Answer 9

Dew point is the term that most meteorologists use to describe the amount of moisture in the air.

Question 10

Hurricane

Answer 10

A tropical cyclone is a rotating low-pressure weather system that has organized thunderstorms but no fronts

Question 11

Desert

Answer 11

The desert climate (in the Köppen climate classification BWh and BWk), is a climate in which there is an excess of evaporation over precipitation.

Question 12

Typhoon

Answer 12

a typhoon is the location where the storm occurs. Hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons are all the same weather

Question 13

Humidity

Answer 13

refers to water vapor in the air, but not to liquid droplets in fog, clouds, or rain. … Higher humidity reduces the effectiveness of sweating in cooling the body by reducing the rate of evaporation of moisture from the skin.

Question 14

Forecast

Answer 14

Weather forecasting is the application of science and technology to predict the conditions of the atmosphere for a given location and time.

Question 15

Atmosphere

Answer 15

Weather is the state of the atmosphere, describing for example the degree to which it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy.

Question 16

Hail

Answer 16

Hail is a form of solid precipitation. … It consists of balls or irregular lumps of ice, each of which is called a hailstone.

Question 17

Thunderstorm

Answer 17

Thunderstorm, a violent, short-lived weather disturbance that is almost always associated with lightning, thunder, dense clouds, heavy rain or hail, and strong, gusty winds.

Question 18

Cloud

Answer 18

Weather portal. In meteorology, a cloud is an aerosol consisting of a visible mass of minute liquid droplets, frozen crystals, or other particles suspended in the atmosphere of a planetary body or similar space.

Question 19

Precipitation

Answer 19

Precipitation is rain, snow, sleet, or hail — any kind of weather condition where something’s falling from the sky.

Question 20

Drought

Answer 20

Most people think of a drought as a period of unusually dry weather that persists long enough to cause problems such as crop damage and water supply shortages.

Question 21

Front

Answer 21

front is a boundary separating two masses of air of different densities, and is the principal cause of meteorological phenomena outside the tropics.

Question 22

Meteorolgy

Answer 22

deals with the atmosphere and its phenomena and especially with weather

Question 23

Freezing Point

Answer 23

Freezing point is 32° Fahrenheit or 0° Celsius, the temperature at which water freezes.

Question 24

Tornado

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A tornado is “a violently rotating column of air, in contact with the ground,

Question 25

Cumulonimbus Cloud

Answer 25

Cumulonimbus (from Latin cumulus, “heaped” and nimbus, “rainstorm”) is a dense, towering vertical cloud,

Question 26

Thunder

Answer 26

thunder, dense clouds, heavy rain or hail, and strong, gusty winds.

Question 27

Weather

Answer 27

the state of the atmosphere at a place and time as regards heat, dryness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc.

Question 28

Waterspout

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Barometer

Answer 29

A barometer is a scientific instrument used to measure air pressure.

Question 30

Global Warming

Answer 30

Global warming describes an average temperature increase of the Earth over time. Climate change describes how weather patterns will be affected around the globe.

Question 31

Temperature

Answer 31

Temperature is a degree of hotness or coldness the can be measured using a thermometer.

Question 32

Barometric Pressure

Answer 32

Barometric pressure (also known as atmospheric pressure) is the force exerted by the atmosphere at a given point.

Question 33

Funnel Cloud

Answer 33

Funnel Cloud. A condensation funnel extending from the base of a towering cumulus

Question 34

Climate

Answer 34

There is often confusion between weather and climate. Weather is the condition of the atmosphere at a particular place over a short period of time,