This natural disaster forms over warm waters and can be identified by categories
What is a hurricane?
100
Uneven heating of the atmosphere leads to differences in _______________, which causes wind.
What is air pressure
100
Known as the "rivers" of winds that carry weather patterns from location to location.
What is the jet stream
100
Weather instrument that measures air pressure
What is a barometer?
100
Layer of the atmosphere that contains the ozone layer that protects our planet
What is stratosphere
200
In a tornado, the best place to be is _________________
What is a basement (underground)
200
This part of the water cycle is where clouds form
What is condensation
200
If you take a hike up a steep mountain, the air pressure on the base of the mountain will be _____________ than the air pressure on the peak of the mountain.
What is heavier/thicker
200
This front is a pair of air masses, neither one is able toreplace the other causing severe weather
What is a stationary front
200
The ______________ is responsible for insulating our planet and trapping the heat in our atmosphere.
What is the Greenhouse Effect
300
During this disaster, you want to find safety in higher elevation like the top of a building
What is a flood
300
Water current that travels along the U.S coast bringing warm water temperatures throughout the year
What is gulf stream?
300
Cold, dry air masses that blow into the United States from central Canada are called ________ ________ air masses
What is continental polar?
300
Weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period
What is climate
300
The main source of energy is the sun. Heat from the Sun is transferred through _______________.
What is radiation
400
Signs of this disaster occurring is slumping or slanting of fence posts and trees.
What is a sinkhole
400
As you rise upwards in the atmosphere, air pressure
What is decreases
400
During the day, the ocean is much cooler than the heated up land, a cool breeze blows from the sea to the land known as a _____________.
What is a sea breeze
400
Ms. Locke wants to give a visual representation to her science class of how sea and land breezes form from high and low pressure areas. What can Ms. Locke use to represent a real life phenomenon on a smaller scale.
What is a diagram
400
The cyclical motion of the Sun heating the Earth causing heat to rise and cool in the atmosphere and sink back down to the Earth where it heats again is known as a what
What is a convection current
500
What is used to categorize tornadoes?
What is the Enhanced Fujita Scale?
500
An _____________ is a continuous, directed movement of seawater generated by forces acting upon this mean flow, such as breaking waves, wind, and differences in temperature.
What is ocean current
500
Winter Springs experienced low pressure today, what kind of weather could they expect in the area?
What is lousy, rainy, thunderstorms
500
Weather instrument used to measure wind speed?
What is anemometer
500
Layer of the atmosphere that is closest to sea level and contains the weather of the Earth