Everything in this flashcard set.
- Hurricanes
- A severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds moving at 63-136 knots (plural)
- Avalanche
- A slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain
- Monsoon
- Any wind that changes direction with the seasons
- Thunderstorm
- A storm resulting from strong rising air currents
- Sleet
- Partially melted snow
- Cyclone
- A violent rotating windstorm
- Hail
- Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents
- Ice
- Frozen water
- Blizzard
- A storm with widespread snowfall accompanied by strong winds
- Rain
- Water falling from clouds
- Volcanoes
- Mountain that erupts with lava (plural)
- Lightning
- Abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission
- earthquakes
- Sudden shakings of the ground caused by movement within the Earth.
- Typhoon
- A tropical cyclone occurring in the western Pacific or Indian oceans
- Sandstorm
- A windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand
- flood
- Light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam
- waterspout
- A tornado passing over ___ and picking up a column of ___ and mist
- highwinds
- A very strong ___ (plural)
- Wildfires
- A raging and rapidly spreading conflagration (plural)
- Drought
- A shortage of rainfall