A type of cloud that is often compared to a cotton ball.
What is a cumulus cloud?
100
This type of precipitation occurs when temperatures are below 32 degrees Fahrenheit.
What is snow?
100
This instrument is used to measure the amount of rainfall a specific area received
What is a rain gauge?
100
This disaster is characterized by a rotating column of air that forms over a landmass. It produces extremely high winds and a lot of damage.
What is a tornado.
100
This disaster led to the death of 114 people in Waco, Texas.
What is the Waco, Texas tornado?
200
This is a cloud that is associated with heavy rain or hail. These clouds are tall, large, and dense.
What is a Cumulonimbus cloud?
200
Revise this statement.
"Acid rain is not caused by humans, but occurs naturally in the environment."
What is Acid rain is produced both naturally and by human interaction with the environment.
200
This weather instrument is often seen on the tops of barns and indicates which way the wind is blowing.
What is a weather vane?
200
This natural disaster can occurs when there is a large increase in precipitation near an already watery area.
What is a flood?
200
This disaster is best known for leaving the city of New Orleans in ruins.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
300
These are layered, horizontal clouds with a flat base.
What is a Stratus cloud?
300
A large amount of this precipitation over a short time can lead to flooding.
What is rain?
300
Support or deny this statement in your own words.
" The best way to measure the temperature outside is to place a thermometer in direct sunlight."
Incorrect, the best place to put an outside thermometer is in an open shaded area so the instrument is less effected by solar heat.
300
This disasters are caused by heavy rainfall on mountain and hillsides with low vegetation.
What is a mudslide?
300
15 inches of rain fell in 18 hours, which lead to one of the biggest floods in US history.
What is the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927?
400
These clouds are thin, wispy, and curly-shaped.
What is a Cirrus cloud?
400
Describe how hail is formed.
When a storm has a strong updraft of wind water droplets are dropped from high in the atmosphere and then are pushed back up into the atmosphere by the wind. These droplets freeze and increase in size every time this process in occurs. Eventually the hail becomes to heavy and falls to earth.
400
Identify what tool is best used for measuring wind speed.
What is an Anemometer?
400
Evaluate the difference between a cyclone and a tornado.
Cyclone develops over water while a Tornado develops over land.
A Cyclone is considerably larger than a Tornado.
A Tornado usually lasts several minutes while a Cyclone can last hours or even days.
400
Report the impact of Cyclone Tracy on the city of Darwin, Australia.
Cyclone killed a total of 71 people. The Cyclone also destroyed much of the city leaving much of the homes in rubble.
500
This type of cloud is associated with tornadoes.
What is a funnel cloud?
500
Examine what causes sleet when temperatures are at or near freezing.
A pocket of warm air causes the precipitation to melt back to a liquid as it is falling from the atmosphere. The liquid does not have enough time to become snow again, so it becomes sleet.
500
After a storm suppose I can tell how much rain we received, how fast the wind was blowing, and what the temperature was outside. Identify what weather tools I have.
What is a rain gauge, an Anemometer, and a thermometer?
500
Using your white board, illustrate where the majority of Hurricanes occur that affect North America.
What is the Atlantic ocean near western Africa and off the southern coast of Florida?
500
Evaluate what caused this disaster after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in August, 2005.
Poor funding and improper levee construction lead to mass flooding from rain fall caused by Hurricane Katrina. This led to the city of New Orleans being largely flooded.