Fronts
A cold front is moving toward North Carolina in the summer. What weather might we start to experience when it gets here?
What are thunderstorms, strong winds, and lower temperatures when it passes over?
What is the scientific formula for water?
What is one Hydrogen, two Oxygen? (Also known as H2O)
What are stratus clouds?
What are flat clouds that seem to block out the sun?
What does a wind vane show?
What is the direction that the wind is blowing?
What type of storm hit a town in Mexico in the middle of summer?
What is a hailstorm?
A warm front is moving toward Winston Salem. What weather might we experience when it gets here?
What are stratus clouds, rain, and warmer temperatures after it passes?
Describe the course of the water cycle starting at any given point.
Sample answer: What is groundwater, evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?
What are Cirrus clouds?
What are clouds that look like thin whisps against the sky that apear on a clear day and/or are made of ice crystals?
What does a rain gauge measure?
What is the amount of rain that falls?
How does the temperature in the atmosphere contrast with the temperature on the ground?
What is a large decrease in temperature?
This is the result of one air mass bumping into another air mass that has a contrasting temperature.
What is a front?
What is a part of the water cycle that involves trees?
What is transpiration?
What does the suffix nimbus mean?
What is storm?
What type of tool can be used to predict if rain is coming? (Clue: What type of decrease can show that rain is coming?)
What is a Barometer?
What is air pressure?
What is the weight of the atmosphere at any given point?
What type of front is shown with triangles on almost all weather channels?
What is a cold front?
What are the names of the two main weather patterns in the Pasific ocean?
What are el nino and la nina?
What is a storm that usually occurs in summertime that seems like it should happen more in winter?
What are hailstorms?
what does a Barometer measure?
What is air pressure?
What caused the dust bowl? (Clue: It was multiple factors.)
Sample answer: What are invasive plant species failing to hold the soil together, cold ocean currents causing a doubt, and strong winds?
What does a purple line show on a weather map?
What is an occluded front?
What are the three main global types of wind patterns?
What are the Polar easterlies, the Westerlies, and Trade Winds?
Where do Hurricanes form?
What is over warm water, usually in the Atlantic ocean, that evaporates and continues to power the storm.
What does an anemometer measure?
What is wind speed?
How does hail form?
What is when an updraft carries water droplets hight into the air?