Weather And Climate Vocab Flashcards
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Air pressure
The force exerted onto a surface by the wheight of the air
Tropical
Places that are especially humid
Cumulus cloud
Clouds that have a flat base and is usually called a puffy cotton like cloud
Cirrus
A thin whispy cloud
Thermometer
A glass tube filled with mercury to tell the temperature
Tropical depression
Tropical cyclone with maximum sustained surface winds of 38 mph or less
Ocean current
Horizontal moment of unusual cold or warm surface water
Dew point
the atmospheric temperature (varying according to pressure and humidity) below which water droplets begin to condense and dew can form
Hurricane
A storm with a violent wind
Desert
A dry barren of land covered in sand
Typhoon
A tropical storm
Humid
The state or quality of being humid
Forecast
To predict or estimate the weather
Atmosphere
The gas sorounding the earth and other planets
Hail
Frozen balls that fall from the sky
Thunderstorm
A storm with thunder and lightning
Cloud
A visible mass of water vapor
Presepitation
Rain,snow,sleet and hail that falls from the ground
Drought
Shortage of water
Meteorology
A branch of science that is concerned with that atmosphere
Freezing point
The point liquid turns solid
Tornado
A mobile destructive vortex
Cumulonimbus cloud
A dense vertical cloud
Thunder
A loud or crashing noise heard by lightning flash
