Nature & animals
The “Weather and climate” quiz — Nature & animals. It has 25 questions in five categories: Global winds, Optical wonders, Clouds & rain, Violent storms, Earth's climate. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
Which 12-point system estimates wind speed based on observed sea conditions or damage on land?
What is the name of the steady prevailing easterly winds that blow from the subtropics toward the Equator?
What narrow, fast-flowing air…
In the gameWhat name did sailors…
In the gameWhat tropical atmospheric circulation…
In the gameWhat luminous ring of light around the Sun or Moon is caused by refraction through atmospheric ice crystals?
Which optical phenomenon is produced by the bending of light rays passing through air layers of different temperatures?
What glowing blue corona…
In the gameWhat brief emerald glimmer…
In the gameWhich optical phenomenon, featuring…
In the gameWhich meteorological instrument is used to measure the humidity of the air?
Which smooth lens-shaped clouds forming over mountain crests are most frequently mistaken for UFOs?
Which clouds are the…
In the gameWhat meteorological term denotes…
In the gameWhich British amateur meteorologist…
In the gameWhat is the calm circular area at the very centre of a tropical cyclone called?
Which scale, ranging from F0 to F5, classifies tornado intensity based on the damage inflicted on structures?
Which inertial force caused…
In the gameWhat dangerous type of…
In the gameWhich widespread straight-line windstorm…
In the gameWhat climate phenomenon involves periodic warming of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific?
Which term describes the fraction of solar radiation reflected back into space by a surface like snow or ice?
Which Serbian scientist linked…
In the gameWhich climatologist developed the…
In the gameWhich abrupt cold period…
In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.
