Unit 2: Physical Characteristics of Earth

What are the short term changes in air for a given place and time?

• climate

• weather

• time

• adapt

What do you call a region's average weather conditions over a long period of time?

• weather

• math stuff

• climate

• migration

What do you call a tropical storm in the region of the Indian or western Pacific Oceans?

• tornado

• hurricane

• cyclone

• typhoon

What do you call a storm with a violent wind, in particular a tropical cyclone in the Caribbean? (Hint: This is what happen on either coast of the United States.)

• typhoon

• cyclone

• hurricane

• flood

What is a localized, very intense low-pressure wind system, forming over tropical oceans and with winds of hurricane force? (Hint: This is what you call the storm when the winds are not quite strong enough to be a hurricane.)

• tropical storm

• hurricane

• cyclone

• typhoon

What is a system of winds rotating inward to an area of low atmospheric pressure, with a counterclockwise (northern hemisphere) or clockwise (southern hemisphere) circulation? This type of storm happens mostly in the southern hemisphere.

• cyclone

• hurricane

• typhoon

• flood

What is a seasonal prevailing wind in the region of South and Southeast Asia, blowing from the southwest between May and September and bringing rain (the wet version), or from the northeast between October and April (the dry version)?

• monsoon

• tornado

• blizzard

• thunderstorm

What is an overflowing of a large amount of water beyond its normal confines, especially over what is normally dry land?

• sleet

• food

• monsoon

• flood

What does it mean to make something suitable for a different purpose OR to change because you are in a new situation?

• migrate

• adapt

• adopt

• gather

What is the land, water, climate, plants, and animals of an area; in other words your surroundings?

• weather

• planet

• neighborhood

• environment