Weather's Affect on People
Interactions that Cause weather
Collecting Data
Forecasting
Sever Weather
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a scientist who studies the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
100
Warm air rises from Earth's surface because it is
What is lighter than cold air?
100
invented the first thermometer.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
100
a large body of air having similar properties or weather conditions.
What is air mass?
100
a violent funnel-shaped cloud with extremely high winds.
What is a tornado?
200
a prediction of what the weather will be like in the near future.
What is a forecast?
200
the measure of the air's water vapor.
What is humidity?
200
an early tool used to track the direction of wind.
What is a wind/weather vane?
200
the boundary between warm and cold air masses.
What is a front?
200
a storm that needs a warm ocean to form
What is a hurricane?
300
two things that caused a serious weather condition in Florida in 1998.
What are heat and drought?
300
the force of air against earth's surface
What is air pressure?
300
an instrument used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
300
Weather forecasts are made by this group.
What is the National Weather Service?
300
the sound we hear as thunder
What is the explosion of expanding air caused by lightning?
400
Meteorologists try to make good predictions to protect these
What are citizens?
400
names of clouds are based on this.
What is the location in the sky?
400
an instrument used to measure wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
400
the main danger in a tornado
What is flying debris?
500
True or False: Weather forecasts are always correct.
What is false?
500
measurement that compares the amount of water vapor in air with the amount the air can hold at a certain temperature.
What is relative humidity?
500
an instrument used to measure relative humidity.
What is a psychrometer?
500
the kind of clouds a cold front usually brings.
What is a cold front?
500
two main dangers in a hurricane?
What is strong winds and high waves?
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