Weather
True or False: Water takes different forms as it moves?
What is:
True
For example: Rain, hail, snow, precipitation
What causes water on Earth’s surface to evaporate?
a. Weather and Climate
b. Energy from the sunlight
c. Air pressure
What is:
b. Energy from the sunlight
True or False: Wind is the movement of gasses?
What is:
False
Wind is the movement of air
Which is not a way that professionals use to collect weather data?
a. Thermometer
b. Anemometer
c. Wind chimes
d. Rain Gauge
What is:
c. Wind chimes
Wind chimes are a decoration
Atmosphere is?
a. Weather and Climate
b. Earth's surface
c. Layer of air that surrounds Earth
What is:
c. Layer of air that surrounds Earth
When air pressure is high the skies look like?
a. clear and sunny
b. cloudy and stormy
c. humid and cloudy
What is:
a. clear and sunny
Climate is:
a. a measure of how fast the wind blows
b. a large body of air in the atmosphere
c. The weather patterns in a place over a long period of time
What is:
c. The weather patterns in a place over a long period of time
What is the tool used to measure wind speed?
a. Thermometer
b. Barometer
c. Anemometer
What is:
c. Anemometer
Thermometer is temperature
Barometer is air pressure
Which is not an example of severe weather?
a. Blizzards
b. Droughts
C. Flooding
D. Wild Fires
What is:
D. Wild Fires
Wild fires are usually caused by people
True or False: Is gas a state of matter
What is:
True
Who studies weather conditions?
a. Meteorologists
b. Condtionologists
c. Weatherologists
What is:
a. Meteorologists
The other two are made up words
Which is not an example of climate:
a. A dry desert
b. snowy North Pole
c. Thunderstorm in the Raleigh area
What is:
c. Thunderstorm in the Raleigh area
The direction the wind is blowing is called?
a. Wind chimes
b. Wind direction
c. A Compass
What is:
b. Wind direction
What does a drought mean?
a. too much water that causes flooding
b. strong winds causing tornadoes
c. going a long period of time without rain or water
What is:
c. going a long period of time without rain or water
What is one of the gasses that occurs in our atmosphere?
a. Precipitation
b. Water vapor
c. Humidity
What is:
b. Water vapor
What is weather?
a. What the air outside is like at any given time or place
b. The weather patterns in a place over a long period of time
c. A measure of the amount of water vapor in the air
What is:
a. What the air outside is like at any given time or place
What is humidity?
a. The place where two air masses meet
b. A measure of the amount of water vapor in the air
c. Information that is observed or measured and recorded
What is:
b. A measure of the amount of water vapor in the air
What are prevailing winds?
a. A large body of air in the atmosphere
b. Regular patterns of wind that blows from one direction
c. to change from liquid to gas
What is:
b. Regular patterns of wind that blows from one direction
How are Tsunamis caused?
a. tidal waves
b. stormy weather
c. earthquakes in the ocean
What is:
c. earthquakes in the ocean
What does a thermometer do?
What is:
Give the temperature
What is:
Hail or sleet
What is an example of climate change?
What is:
(teacher decides what is correct)
What severe weather is caused by wind?
What is:
hurricanes or tornadoes
Give an example on how engineers have invented ways to protect us during severe weather.
What is:
(teachers choice)
What is it called when the weather man is telling us the weather for the day?
What is:
Weather forecast