Severe Weather
What is weather?
Water Cycle
Earth's Water
Weather Maps
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What is a wind system who has a center with low atmospheric pressure?
Hurricane
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What are we surrounded by?
Air
100
What drives the water cycle?
The sun
100
Which planet is know as the water planet?
Earth
100
What is a scientist who studies weather called?
meteorologist
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Which example of severe weather are powerful forms of wind?
Tornadoes
200
What makes weather happen?
Energy
200
What is water vapor made from?
Individual water molecules
200
what is the percentage of water on Earth without salt?
3%
200
What is predicting weather called?
forecasting
300
What are intense ice storms called?
Blizzards
300
What is movement of air?
Wind
300
When water freezes and falls to the Earth, what form is it?
hail, sleet or snow
300
What is 75% of the free water used for in California
Irrigating crops
300
A way to show weather data as a picture is a
Weather map
400
What is a band of warm, moist air that flows to California from the Hawaiian Islands?
Pineapple Express
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What are the three important variables that can describe weather?
heat moisture movement
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What is the global system of water recycling called
The water cycle
400
How many gallons of water does every person in the country use daily?
1,440
400
When kind of weather does the Pineapple Express produce?
violent wind storm
500
In what year did Hurricane Katrina hit?
2005
500
What percent of the Earth is covered by water?
71%
500
How long might it take for a molecule of groundwater to come to the surface in spring?
100 years
500
What is one place 0.5% of fresh water from?
groundwater
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What is the arrow that goes across the weather map called
jetstream
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