Tools
This is used to measure Temperature.
What is a thermometer?
When looking in the newspaper, this information is shown on the weather map.
What are air pressure ( high and lows) and precipitation?
Because of Earth's ___________, the Sun's rays strike the Earth at different angles.
What is tilt?
When water changes from a liquid into a gas. This gas travels into the air as water vapor.
What is to evaporate?
Balls of ice that fall from thunderclouds.
What is hail?
A rain Gauge measures this.
What is precipitation?
A storm with lots of snow, cold temperatures, and strong winds is called a ___________.
What is a blizzard?
This is weather.
What is the air like at a certain time and place?
When water vapor cools, this happens. The water vapor turns back into a liquid.
What is to condense?
These four types of Precipitation.
What are rain, snow, sleet, or hail?
Levees can be used to prevent damage from _______.
What are Floods?
This is something people can do to reduce the impact of a drought.
What are save water, water less, not wash cars, and many more?
Differences between hot and cold air cause the air to move, making this.
What is wind?
Temperature gets ________________ as you go higher in the atmosphere.
What is colder?
A column of spinning air. This can cause a lot of damage.
What is a tornado?
This measures how strong or light the wind is, in addition to the direction of the wind.
What is a wind sock?
The high temperature in Washington, D.C. for each season is listed. The weather most likely to be in April will be _________________.
Winter 44 degrees F. Spring 64 degrees F.
Summer 85 degrees F. Fall 67 degrees F
What is the temperature will be about 64 degrees F?
Different seasons are caused by the spinning of the Earth on an imaginary line called its _____________.
What is axis?
When the air cools, water condenses and forms these.
What are clouds?
A very strong storm near the ocean. It is like many tornadoes together. It can cause a lot of damage and huge floods.
What is a hurricane?
This would show that a lightning rod is successful.
What is lightning hitting the lightning rod on the building instead of hitting the building?
A group of students are designing a house that is safe in strong winds. Which house would be safest?
house built of bricks. a house of toothpicks. A house of linking cubes. A house of craft sticks.
What are linking cubes?
This best describes climate.
What is average precipitation and temperature?
Bridges can be built to bend without breaking in order to prevent damage in a __________________.
What is an earthquake?
Some items I always have on a long trip in the car.
What are water, food, a blanket or sleeping bag, a flashlight and a radio or phone?