The land loses heat more quickly, causing a land breeze.
119 km/h (74 mi/h or 64 knots).
Antarctica and latitudes near the equator.
The eye of the storm.
Sea salt does not evaporate with water.
A violent storm characterized by a rotating column of air.
Temperatures in the air and at the surface must be above freezing (32°F, 0°C).
The point of initial energy release or slippage, generally at considerable depth.
When they move over land or into cooler latitudes.
Air resistance.
It makes lakes and streams more acidic, harming plants and animals.
It measures atmospheric pressure by the height of a mercury column supported by external air pressure.
About 76 cm (30 in.).
The greater the height (h), the greater the pressure (p).
The location on the Earth's surface directly above the focus.
A series of ocean waves that sends surges of water onto land, often caused by undersea earthquakes.
Many believe raindrops are teardrop-shaped, but smaller raindrops are nearly spherical, while larger ones have a small indent.
Intracloud, cloud-to-cloud, cloud-to-ground, and air discharges.
They can range from 75 meters (250 feet) to up to two miles across.
They often touch down for only a few minutes and travel less than a mile, but some can last longer.
Precipitation, local storms, rain storms, thunderstorms, lightning, tropical storms, hurricanes, and tornadoes.
The moisture or water vapor in the air.
Seismograph.
Underwater landslides, volcanic eruptions, or the impact of a large meteorite.
It comes from Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
Seismology.
Typhoon in Southeast Asia, cyclone in the Indian Ocean, and willy-willy in Australia.
Condensation nuclei provide surfaces for water vapor to condense upon, helping droplets gather and grow large enough to fall.
A heavy downpour of rain.
Thermal circulations due to geologic features.
It receives more direct rays of the Sun, warming the air above the land.
Evaporation, transpiration, condensation, and precipitation.
A vent from which hot molten rock, ash, and gases escape, or the mountain created by solidified lava.
Updrafts and downdrafts, collectively known as air currents.
A giant seasonal convection cycle that brings heavy rains from the ocean.
Any liquid or frozen water that forms in the atmosphere and falls back to Earth.
The low point beneath the wave's crest that often reaches shore first.
The presence of thunder and lightning.
The concentration of its energy in a relatively small region.
The ratio of the actual moisture content to the maximum moisture capacity of a volume of air at a given temperature.
Using dehumidifiers in summer and humidifiers or exposed pans of water in winter.
The retreating of sea water, exposing harbor and sea floors.
A tremendous release of energy accompanying the rupture or repositioning of underground rock.
The horizontal movement of air along the Earth’s surface.
Movement of lithospheric plates.
Hail forms in thunderstorm clouds when water droplets are pushed upward into colder temperatures, freeze, and grow as more droplets freeze onto them.
A twister.
The air is 'half full' of moisture, containing half as much water as it can hold at that temperature.
The temperature of the cloud and the air between the cloud and the ground.
Perhaps a million times each year.
The difference in pressure between the center (low pressure) and the outer edge (high pressure).
A sea breeze.
Snow falls when all the air between the cloud and Earth's surface is below freezing.
Warm, moist air rises, cools at higher altitudes, reaches its dew point, and condenses due to condensation nuclei.
Raindrops form when clouds reach a critical mass of water droplets, which collide and merge, growing in size until they fall.
They usually split into two smaller droplets.
Lay waste to a large area.
The force per unit area.
Large crustal features formed by the movement of rocks on either side of a fracture.
Clouds are composed of millions of microscopic water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air.
Cirrus, Cumulus, Stratus, and Nimbus.
Counterclockwise.
Fresh water.
Precipitation contaminated by pollutants in the atmosphere.
A separation of charge in a thundercloud due to the movement of water droplets.
