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Weather Terms A-Z - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 86 times
79 since last reset
- The average score is 18 of 26
Answer Stats
| Definition | Answer | % Correct | |
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| B | a severe snowstorm | Blizzard | 98%
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| E | the calm center of a cyclone | Eye | 94%
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| T | a spinning funnel of wind caused by thunderstorms | Tornado | 92%
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| L | bright, hot flashes of light caused by storms | Lightning | 91%
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| F | an overflow of water typically caused by rain | Flood | 89%
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| W | the movement of air | Wind | 89%
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| H | the measure of moisture in the air | Humidity | 88%
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| O | when clouds cover at least 95% of the sky | Overcast | 86%
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| P | any moisture that falls from the sky | Precipitation | 86%
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| S | the second lowest layer of the atmosphere | Stratosphere | 86%
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| G | a brief, sudden increase in the wind speed | Gust | 84%
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| M | an abrupt seasonal wind reversal, prevalent in Asia | Monsoon | 84%
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| V | how fast an object moves | Velocity | 84%
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| C | the general weather patterns in an area over a period of time | Climate | 77%
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| R | what meteorologists use to predict or monitor the weather;a system that uses radio waves to track objects | Radar | 70%
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| K | a measure for wind speed equal to 1.15 mph | Knot | 67%
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| J | the meandering air current in the troposhere | Jet stream | 59%
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| Q | when there is little to no weather activity in an area | Quiet | 59%
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| N | phenomena in the atmosphere caused by the Sun's solar activity, also called an aurora | Northern lights | 58%
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| U | a small-scale current of rising air | Updraft | 55%
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| I | a line on a map connecting points that havethe same atmospheric pressure | Isobar | 42%
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| Z | wind blowing in a westward direction | Zephyr | 38%
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| Y | snow given a golden or yellow appearance by the presence in it of pine, cypress pollen, or anthropogenic material or animal-produced material | Yellow snow | 33%
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| D | storm that produces widespreadstraight-line sustained winds | Derecho | 31%
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| A | spinning in the opposite direction to the winds around a high pressure system | Anticyclonic | 27%
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| X | a frequency band of microwave radiation in which radars operate | X band | 11%
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