Water cycle
What is the most important component in the water cycle?
What is the sun.
The symbol on a weather map for a cold front is what?
What is a line with spikes on the bottom.
What is the driving force of weather on earth?
What is the sun.
What tool measures air pressure?
What is barometer.
How does water that rains from the sky eventually get back to the source?
What is runoff.
Why does most of the earths evaporation take place over the ocean?
What is because it has a large surface area.
When a cold front is approaching, what happens?
What is warm air rises, cools, and causes rain and thunderstorms.
When a forecast is given, and it calls for 70% chance of rain, does it mean that you have 7 chances out 10 to receive rain or will 70% of your area receive rain?
What is the first option.
What tool measures rainfall?
What is a rain gauge.
In a high pressure area, the weather will likely be?
What is warmer and clear skies.
From where does most water evaporate?
What is the oceans.
The symbol on a weather map for a warm front is what?
What is a line with semi-circles on it.
The region in the U.S. with the greatest annual frequency of hail is?
western Great Plains.
What tool measures humidity?
What is a hygrometer.
On APPROXIMATELY what date is Earth farthest from the Sun?
What is July 3rd.
What is the only thing in nature that can be a solid, a liquid, or a gas?
What is water.
When a warm front is approaching, what happens?
Advancing warm air pushes up and over retreating cold air causing warm temperatures and mild rain.
Why don't hurricanes occur all year long?
What is the water temperatures are not warm enough to foster the growth of the storms.
What tool measures wind direction?
What is a wind vane.
The range between the daily maximum temperature and the daily minimum temperature is usually greater if the air is
A. Very dry
B. Very humid
C. Nither
What is very dry.
Where is water vapor found?
| A: in the air around you |
| B: in your breath |
| C: in steam from a kettle |
| D: all of the above |
What is D.
If an air mass is rising, it must be...
What is If an air mass is rising, it must be.
Very powerful cyclonic storms that form over warm tropical waters are called
A. Hurricanes B. Cyclones C. Typhoons D. All
What is All.
These two instruments measure in centimeters or inches...
What is barometer and rain gauge.
A tornado is coming into town and you need to measure the severity of the storm, what tool do you use?
What is a Barometer.