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Ch 16 sec 3 vocab
weather
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a usually brief, heavy storm that consists of rain, strong winds, lightning, and thunder | Thunderstorm |
| an electric discharge that takes place between two oppositely charged surfaces, such as between a cloud and the ground, between two clouds, or between two parts of the same cloud | Lightning |
| the sound caused by the rapid expansion of air along an electrical strike | Thunder |
| a destructive, rotating column of air that has very high wind speeds and that may be visible as a funnel-shaped cloud | Tornado |
| a severe storm that develops over tropical oceans and whose strong winds of more than 120 km/h spiral in toward the intensely low-pressure storm center | Hurricane |