Blizzard
Hot, Hot, Hot
Shake It
Ready, Set, Blow!
Wade in the Water
100
This is someone who studies the science of the atmosphere and its phenomena.
What is a meteorologist?
100
This is unusually high temperatures for several days or weeks.
What is a heat wave?
100
This is the name for smaller earthquakes that follow a large one.
What are aftershocks?
100
This is the name of a rotating column of air that does not actually touch the ground.
What is a funnel cloud?
100
This is the highest point that a flood reaches.
What is the crest?
200
These form when the jet stream pushes very far south.
What is a blizzard?
200
This is the term for months or years of decreased water supply.
What is a drought?
200
This is the how the energy is released when Earth's plates catch and then release.
What is a seismic wave?
200
At what wind speed are storms considered hurricanes?
What is 74 mph?
200
These are temporary walls used to prevent flooding.
What are levees?
300
Zero visibility is the term used when you cannot see this far in front of you.
What is 9 feet?
300
A heat index uses these two factors to estimate how hot it feels outside.
What are temperature and humidity?
300
These are the names of the sources of an earthquake underground and above ground.
What are focus (underground) and fault (above ground)?
300
This is a concentrated downdraft of sinking air that can cause serious wind damage.
What is a microburst?
300
The Great Flood in this year caused $20 billion in damage.
What is 1993?
400
These are the conditions in order to qualify a snowstorm as a blizzard.
What is 35 mph winds and a storm lasting 3 or more hours?
400
These are two reasons why the heat wave of July 1995 was one of the most notorious.
What are 1) temperatures were hitting 106 degrees F 2) train rails melted and became warped 3) 1000 people lost their lives due to heat within a week
400
This is the name of the instrument that measures and records the force, duration, and other details of an earthquake.
What is a seismograph?
400
This is used to measure the strength and intensity of a hurricane based on its wind speeds.
What is the Saffir-Simpson Scale?
400
This is the difference between a flood watch and a flood warning.
Watch - conditions are favorable for flooding Warning - flooding is occurring in certain areas
500
This nor'easter killed 400 people and dumped 4 feet of snow on the east coast of the U.S.
What is the Great Blizzard of 1888?
500
These are the conditions in which a heat wave forms.
What is 1) air sinks toward the surface under high pressure conditions, holding in hot air; 2)buildup of heat on the surface becomes a heat wave
500
This is the difference between each point on the Richter Scale.
What is 10 times the shaking and 33 times the energy?
500
What would the rating of a tornado be if its wind speeds were more than 200 mph?
What is and EF-5?
500
What are three causes of flooding?
What are (1) heavy rainfall (2) melting snow and ice (3) tsunami or (4) levee break?
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