Wild Weather Phenomena
Earth's Place in Space
Water Makes the World Go Round
Forecasters Unite
Investigations and Experimentation
100
A severe form of weather characterized by a lack of rainfall
What is a drought?
100
It is in the center of our solar system.
What is the sun?
100
The amount of fresh water on earth.
What is 3%?
100
High winds and storms often arrives with this type of pressure system.
What is a low pressure system?
100
This is the part of an experiment that is kept the same throughout an experiment
What is a controlled variable?
200
The type of cloud that produces thunderstorms, tornadoes, and hurricanes
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
200
Home to asteroids between Jupiter and Mars
What is the Asteroid Belt?
200
This process causes clouds to form and dew to appear on your grass
What is condensation?
200
Wind direction usually moves from areas of cold air toward
What is warm air?
200
This is the independent variable in Maria's experiment
What is the type of cloth?
300
I'm known as a tropical cyclone in some parts of the world. I build up energy over the open ocean.
What is a hurricane?
300
The gravitational pull between Jupiter and the Sun keeps these bodies orbiting about the planet
What are Jupiter's moons?
300
One of the many ways water enters the atmosphere
What is transpiration? What is human activity? What is evaporation?
300
In the picture on the board it is the direction the wind is blowing
What is up along the mountain's west side?
300
This is the dependent variable in Maria's investigation
What is the rate at which the cloths dry?
400
This part of the United States is infamous when it comes to tornadoes.
What is Tornado Alley?
400
The force that keeps planets in motion--it also keeps you firmly planted on earth.
What is gravity?
400
The type of precipitation that forms when the air temperature is below 0 degrees Celsius
What is sleet, snow or hail?
400
Different than climate, this can be predicted at most only a few days in advance
What is weather?
400
This is a good testable question for Maria's experiment
What is How does the type of cloth affect the rate of evaporation?
500
This weather phenomenon occurs when an updraft and down draft cause ice crystals to bang into each other causing a separation of charges in a cloud.
What is lightning?
500
The result of a giant supernova, what we are all made of--just like stardust
What are the elements?
500
This natural phenomenon creates large ocean currents when different temperatures of water interact.
What is a convection current?
500
Look closely at the map on the board. Weather forecasters would predict that the weather in this are will be this
What is heavy rain and possible thunderstorms?
500
This is what Maria would need to change in order to improve her experiment.
What is control the size of the sample and check her samples more often?
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