Types of Storms
Clouds, wind, rain, hail.
What is a tornado?
This is the season with the most blizzards.
What is winter?
Most of the world uses the __________ system for measurements. Examples includes liter, meter, and gram.
What is the Metric System?
The daily state of the atmosphere in any given place.
What is weather?
Another name for a weather forecaster
What is a meteorologist?
What is a hurricane?
This is the season in which plants and trees lose their leaves.
In the U.S., we use the __________ scale to describe the temperature.
Fahrenheit
The average of weather conditions over time in a certain area.
What is climate?
If a meteorologist wants to demonstrate the temperature, they might want to show a _____________.
Heavy snow, ice, cold temperatures.
What is a blizzard?
What is winter?
These used to have mercury in them, but no longer do.
What is a thermometer?
Rain, snow, or sleet that falls to the ground and collects.
True or false: Weather is only caused by wind and clouds.
What is false? (Weather is caused by wind, clouds, pressure, and heat from the sun)
The general term for strong storms.
This is the season when the most tornadoes occur in the United States.
What is summer?
A ___________ measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
Stratus, cirrus, and cumulus are all examples of __________.
What are clouds?
True or false: weather is pretty easy to predict
What is false! Weather can be very unpredictable.
The term for lava that hasn't left a volcano left and is still within the earth.
What is magma?
These 2 seasons are most associated with hurricanes.
What are summer and fall?
This type of storm causes the most deaths each year.
What are thunderstorms?
Precipitation and evaporation are both part of the _____________________.
What is the water cycle?
A meteorologist's report about what weather is coming is called a _____________.
What is a forecast?