What kind of weather does a stationary front bring?
What is many days of cloudy, wet weather
100
If there is a tornado warning in your area, what should you do?
What is go to a room with no windows
100
What do isobars show?
What is areas of high and low pressure
100
What measures air temperature?
What is a thermometer
200
How does hail form?
What is when raindrops are carried up into the clouds by updrafts and freeze, on the way down water drops coat it and it then goes back up to freeze until it falls to the Earth
200
What do cyclones and anticyclones help predict?
What is stormy or clear weather
200
75% of what severe storm occur in the United States?
What is tornadoes
200
Wind speed can be measured with an __________?
What is anemometer
200
An increase in what allows air to be able to hold more water vapor?
What is temperature
300
Fog is a type of what type of cloud?
What is a stratus cloud
300
What are the four types of fronts
What is warm, cold, stationary and occluded
300
A storm surge is a dangerous part of which severe storm?
What is a hurricane
300
What is a windsock?
What is a cone shaped bag that allows wind to pass through it that measures wind direction
300
What is humidity?
What is the amount of water vapor in the air
400
Why do people use coasters when setting cold drinks on furniture?
What is to protect the furniture from dew forming on the glass
400
A maritime polar air mass that forms over the North Pacific Ocean brings what kind of weather to the Pacific Coast?
What is wet and cold
400
Explain how tornadoes form
What is wind moving in 2 directions cause a layer of air to spin. The spinning air is turned into a vertical position which moves to the bottom of a cumulonimbus cloud forming a funnel cloud. When it touches ground it becomes a tornado
400
What instrument measures air pressure?
What is a barometer
400
Explain how cyclones and anticyclones affect the weather.
What is cyclones rise and cools forming clouds and rain and stormy weather. In an anticyclone the sinking air brings dry clear weather
500
What does a psychrometer measure?
What is relative humidity
500
What kind of front forms when a cold air mass displaces a warm air mass?
What is a cold front
500
Explain what causes lightning
What is an electric discharge that occurs between a positively charged area and a negatively charged area. can be between two clouds, two parts of a cloud or a cloud and the ground.
500
What does radar do?
What is it tracks the location, movement and amount of precipitation
500
What is evaporation?
What is condensation?
What is the process in which liquid turns to vapor and the process in which water vapor turns to liquid