A cold front means that two air masses collided that are _______ air.
What is cold?
100
These types of clouds usually produce large thunderstorms, hail, or even tornadoes.
What is cumulonimbus? Vertical or thunderheads also accepted.
100
This instrument measures the outside temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100
This is the climate that we live in.
What is temperate? (means 4 seasons)
100
This is a mixture of gasses in constant motion (movement).
What is air?
200
How often does weather happen?
What is all the time?
200
These are four types of severe weather. You must get all four to get credit.
What is blizzard, thunderstorm, hurricane, and tornado?
200
This instrument measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
200
Generally for climates to be defined scientists need to look at the weather that has happened over a certain amount of years. Name the total of years.
What is 30 years?
200
Most of the weather happens at this level in the atmosphere.
What is the Troposphere?
300
On a weather map you see an area of L (low pressure). That generally means that this type of weather is happening.
What is stormy weather?
300
This type of severe weather forms over warm water, strengthens over warm water, and have swirling winds and downpours which often cause flooding. If they move over land or colder water they can weaken.
What is a hurricane?
300
This instrument measures the amount of rain that has fallen.
What is a rain gauge?
300
At Polar climate this is the type of temperatures.
What is cold?
300
Continental Polar air is cold air that forms over land. This is the type of cold dry air that forms over water.
Maritime polar air.
400
Water freezes at this temperature.
What is 32 degrees F. or 0 degrees C?
400
This type of severe weather has spinning air that is lifted up vertically by rapidly rising warm air. It must touch the ground to be these type of severe weather.
Bonus - what is the spinning air called?
What is a tornado? Funnel Cloud.
400
This is what moves weather across the country.
What is the Jet Stream?
400
Name one thing that affects the climate of an area?
What are landforms and oceans?
400
As the altitude gets higher (moving up in the sky away from Earth) the air pressure does this.
What is decreases as we move higher?
500
A weather pattern has been moving across the country. It is traveling from ____________ to ____________.
Bonus - About how long will it take the weather to reach Boston from California?
What is West to East?
About a week.
500
List some safety procedures to keep you safe during a thunderstorm!
What is...stay inside, stay away from water and metal, get into a car, have supplies, do not go under a tree, etc?
500
A barometer (measures air pressure) has risen to sunny, this is what has happened to the air pressure in the area.
What is increased? High pressure means sunny.
500
This is why it is important to learn about climates and past climates.
What is to help us learn about what life was like in history, how animals adapt, what climates were like so we can identify how people behaved, etc?
500
In convection currents warm air rises and colder air falls, which replaces the warm air. The warm air rises because of this. The cold air falls because of this.
What is warm air lighter (particles spread out)? Cold air heavier (particles condensed)?