Weather & Climate

What type of wind are the tramontana or the cierzo?

Which climate zone receives the highest amount of solar radiation?

Without solar radiation, there would still be air movement, water evaporation, storms or hurricanes anyway.

What type of air absorbs more water vapor?

Wind speed is measured in km/h using a

It is formed when ice crystals in the clouds are pushed upwards by ascending air currents.

Cold air is heavier and denser, so it tends to descend. It is less humid and brings clear skies.

Hot air creates areas of low pressure, also called...

Relief precipitation and orographic precipitation are similar, but the relief one is more intense.

The atmosphere is heated from above, not from below as people might think.

Is solar radiation beneficial or harmful to human health?

The air closest to the Earth's surface is warmer.

In which climate zones is there little sunlight, and so precipitation is very low?

On temperature maps, isotherms connect points of equal temperature.

The water cools down faster than the land.

Rainfall is measured in millimeters (mm) using a ...

The direction of the wind is measured in sexagesimal numbers using a

Droplet is a type of precipitation.

The device used to measure the air temperature in the atmosphere in degrees centigrade (ºC).

The level of humidity in the air is measured with a...

Anticyclones and depressions are represented on maps using...

Isohyets are used to show rainfall on a map.