Definitions
Short answer
Fill in the blank
Analyzing charts
Vocab Words
100
What is weather?
How the temperature/precipitation is on a particular day.
100
What is a meteorologist?
An expert on weather
100
________ is the most dangerous type of severe weather
Flooding
100

Which month has the most rainfall?

September

100

Something that happens in a repeated or predictable way.

Pattern

200
What is "water that falls from the sky?"
Precipitation
200

What type of hazardous weather do we have in NC?

Hurricanes, flooding, thunderstorms, and occasionally tornadoes

200
_______ climates are very cold and dry throughout the year
Polar
200

Display chart with monthly rain average. Which month is the most dry?

April

200

How hot or cold something is.

Temperature

300
What is hazardous weather?
Weather that is dangerous
300

What type of hazardous weather might cause a family to have to leave its home and move away from the ocean? A) Hurricane B) Thunderstorm C) Sunny day D) Winter storm

Hurricane

300

Wind ________ is important to know.

Speed or Direction

300

What season gets the least amount of precipitation?

Fall

300

to carefully look at or investigate something

Observe

400

What type of energy is used for weather?

Solar energy or the Sun

400
Difference between weather and climate?
Weather is how weather is on a particular day, climate is how weather is over an extended period of time.
400

North Carolina is in a ______ season.

Humid/Hot

400

Display seasonal averages chart. Is there more rainfall during the colder months or the warmer months?

There is more rainfall during the warmer months.

400

To make a careful guess about what might happen

Predict

500
A device for collecting and measuring the amount of rain that falls.
A rain guage
500
What type of severe weather is most common in the desert?
Drought.
500
A ______ is a tool used for measuring wind direction.
Wind vane.
500

Describe how the climate is different for February vs September

February is much colder than September. Also, September seems to have more precipitation.

500

Information that helps us support an idea

Evidence

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