Statistics for Weather A-Z

Click here to take the quiz!

General Stats
Answer Stats
Score Distribution
Your Score History

General Stats

This quiz has been taken 104 times
The average score is 15 of 25

Answer Stats

	Hint	Answer	% Correct
B	Winter storm with major blowing and drifting of snow	Blizzard	96%
E	The relatively calm center in a hurricane	Eye	84%
D	A prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall	Drought	81%
N	The period of the day between dusk and dawn	Night	81%
T	A long high sea wave caused by an earthquake	Tsunami	80%
F	The standard scale used to measure temperature in the United States	Fahrenheit	77%
P	Relating to the North or South Pole	Polar	77%
R	A forest which grows in a region of heavy annual precipitation	Rainforest	77%
S	Relating to the sun	Solar	72%
I	A time of widespread glaciation	Ice Age	69%
Y	The period during which the Earth completes one revolution around the sun	Year	69%
X	Electromagnetic radiation	X-Ray	65%
L	The side away from the wind. The opposite of windward	Leeward	63%
M	The science dealing with the atmosphere and its phenomena	Meteorology	63%
V	A whirling mass of air in the form of a column or spiral	Vortex	61%
H	A condition resulting from excessive exposure to intense heat	Heat Stroke	56%
O	The study of the ocean	Oceanography	56%
J	Fast flowing, narrow, meandering air currents in the atmosphere	Jet Stream	52%
C	The science that deals with the phenomena of climates or climatic conditions	Climatology	51%
W	The state of the atmosphere with respect to wind, temperature, cloudiness, moisture and pressure	Weather	51%
G	Recrystallized snow on the surface of the ground, that moves slowly downslope	Glacier	47%
A	The mixture of gases comprising the earth's atmosphere	Air	43%
Z	A soft gentle breeze	Zephyr	35%
K	A wind that is created by air flowing downhill	Katabatic Wind	11%
U	Agency that studies the landscape of the U.S. its natural resources, and the natural hazards that threaten it.	United States Geological Survey	5%