Clouds/Water Cycle
Weather Tools
Suns Angle/Seasons
Weather and Climate
Severe Weather
100
A cloud that forms in a blanket-like layer.
What is Stratus Cloud
100
Shows the direction of the wind.
What is a wind vane?
100
The Earth rotates on this line that goes through the North and South poles.
What is axis?
100
What the lower atmosphere is like at any given place and time.
What is weather?
100
A violent whirling wind that moves across the ground in a narrow path.
What is a tornado?
200
A high-altitude cloud with a featherlike shape, made of ice crystals.
What is Cirrus Cloud?
200
Used by scientists to measure the temperature.
What is a thermometer?
200
Occur because of the tilt of the Earth on it's axis and the Earth's position in it's orbit around the sun.
What are seasons?
200
The average weather pattern of a region.
What is climate?
200
These form over warm tropical waters.
Where do Hurricanes form?
300
The changing of a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
300
Tool that is used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
300
An imaginary horizontal line across the center of earth’s surface.
What is the equator?
300
A rainy day.
What is an example of weather?
300
When a cold front moves into a warmer area.
What causes a thunderstorm?
400
A puffy cloud that appears to rise up from a flat bottom.
What is Cumulus Cloud?
400
Tool that measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
400
Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter.
What are the seasons?
400
A tropical dry area.
What is an example of climate?
400
A storm with the most low pressure in its center.
What is a hurricane?
500
Any form of water that falls to the Earth’s surface from the clouds.
What is precipitation?
500
A weather tool used to measure both the rotation and movement of clouds and storms.
What is Doppler radar?
500
The place on Earth that receives the most direct Sun light.
What is the equator?
500
Areas that are divided by precipitation and weather.
What are climate zones?
500
Has a top wind speed of approximately 300 mph.
What is a tornado?
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