Forces of Nature

Quiz

 1. lightninga) natural electricity produced in thunderstorm clouds

and appearing as a bright flash or streak of light in the sky.

2. precipitation b) pellets of frozen rain or a storm of such pellets.

3. tidec) a frozen form of precipitation that falls as ice crystals

formed into flakes.

4. erosiond) the force by which a planet or other such body tends

to draw objects toward its centre.

5. snowe) a brief electrical storm usu. accompanied by heavy

rain and high winds.

6. tornadof) water vapour in the atmosphere that condenses and

falls from the sky to earth.

7. hailg) the process by which material from the earth's

surface is worn away by forces such as glaciers, wind, and waves.

8. hurricaneh) the state of the atmosphere at a particular place and

time as characterized by sunshine, moisture, temperature, precipitation, and other variables.

9. pressurei) snow, rain, or the like, or the amount of such matter

to fall on a given area in a given amount of time.

10. thunderstormj) a very destructive but short-lived windstorm in the

form of a funnel-shaped cloud that moves close to the ground destroying whatever is in its path.

11. gravity k) the applying of constant force upon a surface.

12. rain

l) a powerful cyclonic storm that originates in the West Indian region of the Atlantic Ocean and that has heavy rains and winds exceeding seventy-three miles, or 119 kilometres, per hour.

13. weather

m) the periodic change, occurring about every twelve hours, in the height of the surface of oceans and bodies of water near or feeding into them, caused by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun.