Precipitation
Thunderstorms/Tools
Blizzards
Tornadoes/Hurricanes
Floods/Droughts
100
Precipitation is-
What is water falling from the clouds?
100
Tool that measures amount of rain
What is rain gauge?
100
Precipitation in a blizzard?
What is snow?
100
Most tornadoes form here-
What is Tornado Alley?
(Central US and Canada)
(Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kansas, South Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska)
100
Floods result from-
What is too much water over what is normally dry land?
200
Two types of precipitation-
What are Rain, snow, sleet, or hail?
200
The difference between a storm watch and a storm warning
What is a storm watch means a storm may develop
and a storm warning means a storm is coming soon take precautions?
200
Two characteristics that define a front
What are temperature and humidity?
200
Tornadoes shapes
What is a funnel?
200
The most important safety rule in a flood watch or flood warning is-
What is get to higher ground and don't drown, turn around?
300
Hail.
300
Thunderstorms cause-
What are high winds and heavy rain?
300
Is visibility low, normal, or high/clear in a blizzard?
Low.
300
Clouds that can form tornadoes
What are cumulonimbus?
300
Droughts happen because-
What is there hasn't been much rain for a long time?
400
Precipitation falls because-
What is clouds getting heavy with water?
400
Thermometers measure
What is the average kinetic energy of the particles?
400
In what part of the country do blizzards happen the most?
The north east.
400
Hurricanes move over land their energy
What is decreases?
400
Droughts difficult for farmers-
What is their crops can die and animals can lose their food and water.
500
What tells us what form of precipitation we will see?
The temperature of the air.
500
Tool that measures air pressure
What is barometer?
500
Tool that measures wind speed-
What is an Anemometer?
500
Hurricanes damage property 2 ways-
What is the storm surge and wind?
500
Tool that shows direction of the wind-
What is a weather vane?