Weather dangers
Weather 1
Weather 2
Weather Equipment
Weather 3
100
A violent spinning cloud
What is a tornado?
100
An observer of the weather
Who is a meteorologist?
100
High humidity causes
What is sticky, sweaty weather?
100
Measures relative humidity
What is a psychrometer?
100
Direction weather moves in the U. S.
What is west to east?
200
Formed over a warm ocean
What is a hurricane
200
Used to track storms
What is Doppler radar?
200
Causes the weight of the air pressure on the Earth's surface
What is gravity?
200
Used to measure wind speed
What is an anemometer?
200
One of first ways meteorologists shared information over long distances
What is the telegraph?
300
The main danger in a tornado
What is flying debris?
300
A large amount of air
What is an air mass?
300
Measure of the water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
300
3 things used to collect data in the upper atmosphere to help predict weather
What are weather balloons, satellites, and Doppler radar?
300
Precipitation usually starts as
What is snow?
400
2 main dangers in a hurricane
What are strong winds and high waves?
400
Tall clouds with a flat bottom that produce rain
What are cumulonimbus?
400
The amount of water vapor that the air can hold depends on
What is temperature?
400
Invented an early model of the anemometer
Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
400
Weather condition when a place gets too little rain
What is a drought?
500
Explosion of expanding air caused by lightning causes
What is thunder?
500
To predict the weather
What is forecast?
500
Formed at the boundaries of two different air masses
What is a front?
500
Invented the first thermometer
Who was Galileo Galilei?
500
Clouds are named because of
What is their shape?
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