This is the name of a scientist who studies weather.
What is a meteorologist?
100
This is the name for the force of air against Earth's surface.
What is air pressure?
100
These are low clouds that are usually seen as smooth, even sheets
What are stratus clouds?
100
This is the name of an instrument used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
100
This is a very large body of air that has similar properties or weather conditions.
What is an air mass?
200
This is a prediction of what the weather will be like in the near future.
What is a forecast?
200
This results when air moves from regions of high pressure to regions of low pressure.
What is wind?
200
Clouds are often named after this trait.
What is its shape?
200
This is the name of an instrument used to measure wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
200
This is the name for the boundary between warm and cold air masses.
What is a front?
300
A serious wildfire occurred in Florida in 1998 as a result of these two factors.
What is heat and drought
300
This is the amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
300
This type of precipitation falls from clouds into cold air and never melts.
What is snow?
300
This is the name of an instrument used to measure relative humidity.
What is a psychrometer?
300
Actual weather forecasts are issued by this organization.
What is the National Weather Service?
400
If 40 out of 500 acres of forest land are destroyed by fire, what is the percent of forest land destroyed?
What is 8%
400
This is the measurement that compares the amount of water vapor in the air with the amount the air can hold at a certain temperature.
What is relative humidity?
400
This type of precipitation falls from clouds as snow into warm air and melts. It then cools before freezing in cold air, and becomes ice when it hits the ground.
What is freezing rain?
400
This is a type of radar that calculates distance and shows range of movement.
What is doppler radar?
400
Weather typically moves from this direction.
What is west to east?
500
True or false: meteorologists and firefighters worked together to put the Florida fire of 1998 out.
What is true
500
This is the temperature at which a volume of air cannot hold any more water vapor.
What is dew point?
500
This type of precipitation falls from clouds as snow and melts when it hits warmer air. It then refreezes in cold air.
What is sleet?
500
This is the name of the person who first created the thermometer in 1953.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
500
This type of severe weather needs a warm ocean in order to form.