Weather Words
Severe Weather
Being prepared
Technology
Anything
100
The blanket of air that surrounds earth is called
What is atmosphere?
100
This occurs when a strom brings a large amount of rain in a short amount of time.
What is a flood?
100
This is given to inform people that severe weather could develop.
What is a weather watch?
100
This sends signals from an antenna out into the air.
What is weather radar?
100
These clouds look like a pile of cotton balls and have flat bottoms.
What is a cumulus cloud?
200
A measur of how hot or cold something is.
What is the temperature?
200
Strong wind, rain, lightning and thunder.
What is a thunderstorm?
200
This is given to inform people that severe weather is happening or about to happen.
What is a weather warning?
200
These are filled with helium and float through the sky to gather information about the weather.
What is a weather balloon?
200
These clouds are flat and form layers low in the sky. They stretch across and often cover the entire sky.
What is stratus clouds?
300
Water that fallls to the ground in any form - rain, snow, drizzle, hail and more.
What is precipitation?
300
A violent, swirling tube of air.
What is a tornado?
300
When wind blows the warm air that surrounds your body away from you, making you feel colder.
What is wind chill?
300
These are launched into space, orbit the Earth and take pictures of it.
What is a weather satellite?
300
These clouds are thin and look like curls of hair. They form very high up in the sky>
What is cirrus clouds?
400
These people study and predict, or forecast the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
400
Strong winds, cold temperatures and heavy snowfall.
What is a blizzard?
400
UV rays
What is ultraviolet rays?
400
This measures how much rain falls in a period of time.
What is a rain gauge?
400
This is what some animals do through cold, winter months.
What is hibernate?
500
This happens when an area receives less rain than usual over many months or even years.
What is a drought?
500
Huge storms that form over the ocean.
What is a hurricane?
500
A thin layer of ozone gas high up in the atmosphere.
What is the ozone layer?
500
This measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
500
Being able to predict the weather was important to the survival of these people.
Who are the First Nations?
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