Instruments
Severe Weather
Weather Map Symbols
Layers of the Atmosphere
Optics
100
You can use a ________________ to tell the temperature outside!
What is Thermometer
100
What is the most frequent time of day for a thunderstorm?
What is evening
100
A warm front on a weather map is represented by.....?
What is Red half circles
100
All weather occurs in this layer of the atmosphere
What is Troposphere
100
Sun shines through thin clouds of ice crystals!
What is Halos
200
A ________________ measures air pressure.
What is Barometer
200
What is the reason we see lightning before we hear thunder?
What is Light travels faster than sound!
200
The border where two air masses collide?
What is Front
200
What are three things in nature that contain plasma?
What is Stars, lightning, Auroras, Sun
200
In a rainbow, each color of light, ______________, a different amount. Colors are separated by ____________light.
What is bends, white
300
A package of weather instruments carried above ground by a weather balloon.
What is Radiosonde
300
How does Tornado Alley form?
What is The land in the Great Plains is relatively flat, which allows cold dry polar air from Canada to meet warm moist tropical air from the Gulf of Mexico. It's along the front between the two air masses that most tornadoes form. Most tornadoes in the United States form in an area called "Tornado Alley".
300
A cold front on a weather map is represented by?
What is Blue triangles
300
The Aurora Borealis is found in this layer
What is Thermosphere
300
It is an optical illusion caused by atmospheric conditions, especially the appearance of a sheet of water in a desert or on a hot road caused by the refraction of light from the sky by heated air.
What is a Mirage
400
This ability to detect motion has greatly improved the meteorologist's ability to peer inside clouds and determine and predict storms more accurately.
What is Doppler Radar
400
What are the three different types of lightning?
What is Cloud to Cloud, Ground to Cloud, Cloud to Ground
400
A large body of air that has the same characteristics throughout.
What is Air Mass
400
The stratosphere layer contains ______________, a layer that protects us from the sun!
What is Ozone
400
Bending of light as it moves from air to water is......
What is Refraction
500
As the cups of an ___________________ catch, they spin. A dial shows the wind speed.
What is Anemometer
500
A hurricane cannot form unless it is ____________degrees or warmer water
What is 70 degrees
500
A warm air mass is caught between two cooler air masses
What is an occluded front
500
The atmosphere contains mainly what two elements?
What is Oxygen, Nitrogen
500
____________________ and size of the molecule in the air determines color of sunsets and sunrises.
What is Wavelength
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