Weather or Climate
Severe Weather
Climates and Storm Safety
Weather Tools
Water Cycle
Precipitation
200
In Canada, the weather is coldest in this season.
Winter
200
An air mass that spins counterclockwise and towards the center.
What is low pressure system or cyclone?
200
This system brings lousy weather.
What is a low pressure system.
200
I measure the direction of wind.
Weather vane
200
The three stages of the water cycle.
What is evaporation/transpiration, condensation, and precipitation.
200
Forms of precipitation include (at least 3)
What are rain, drizzle, snow, sleet, freezing rain, and hail.
400
The location that surface wind speed is the lowest.
What is location C.
400
This has rain, thunder and lightning.
Thunderstorm
400
This climate is always cold and there is a type of bear named after it.
What is Polar?
400
You feel this when it is hot and there is moisture in the air
Humidity
400
The movement of water through the soil itself
What is infiltration?
400
Torrential rain is rain that is considered especially heavy and usually occurs during what types of weather
Storms
600
What the weather is like in a specific area over a long period of time.
Climate
600
This can flood and damage homes due to strong winds and rain usually starting in the ocean and moving towards coastline cities.
Hurricane
600
This type of climate is close to the equator. It starts with the letter "T"
Tropical
600
If you have a fever or to measure the temperature of the air or water, use me.
Thermometer
600
The primary source for water in the water cycle.
What is ocean water?
600
Name 3 words to describe types of rain
very light, light, average, heavy
Mist(y), drizzle, sprinkle, showers, downpour
800
The primary cause of seasonal changes on Earth.
The tilt of the Earth's axis (Coriolis Effect)
800
Small iced balls raining down creating damage.
What is hail?
800
The most dangerous place to be in a lightning storm.
What is under a tree?
800
I measure atmospheric air pressure.
What is a barometer?
800
The phase change from water vapor to clouds.
What is condensation?
800
If the amount of water vapor in the air increases, then the dew point will
What is increase.
1000
The number 2-1/2 on the station model indicates
The front is 2-1/2 miles away.
1000
cP and mT stand for these types of weather fronts.
What is continental polar and maritime tropical.
1000
Not much rain occurs in this climate.
What is dessert or Arid?
1000
Curious about how much rain fell in a certain period of time? Use me to measure it.
Rain gauge
1000
The process by which plants absorb water and release it to the atmosphere from their leaves in the form of water vapor.
What is Transpiration?
1000
Snow that begins to melt as it reaches the ground, but doesn't melt completely
Sleet