Weather
Climate
Predicting Weather
Severe Storms
Miscellaneous
100
The continuous movement of water between Earth's surface and the air
What is the water cycle?
100

A weather pattern of hot summers, cold winters, and annual precipitation.

What is a temperate climate?

100

Rain, snow, sleet and hail are all examples of this.

What is precipitation?

100
The speed that winds need to reach for a tropical storm to become a hurricane.
What is 75mph?
100
The layer of the atmosphere that weather happens in. 

What is a troposhere?

200
The changing of gas to a liquid as heat is removed
What is condensation?
200
The average weather pattern over a region.
What is climate?
200

This type of front causes severe weather and thunderstorms. 

What are cold fronts?

200

Meteorologists use this phrase to inform residences that tornado has been seen and they need to seek shelter. 

What is Tornado Warning?

200

How does the Sun influence climate?

The Sun powers the water cycle.

The sun heats earth unevenly which creates wind.

The Sun heats earth unevenly at latitude lines due to the Earth's shape and tilt. 


300

List two tools used to measure elements of weather.

What is thermometer, anemometer, barometer, wind vane, psychrometer and rain gauge

300
The distance north or south of the equator.
What is latitude?
300
A large region of the atmosphere in which the air has similar properties throughout.
What is an air mass?
300

This storm needs low air pressure and warm water to form and when these storms move over land they lose strength or weaken.

What is a hurricane?

300
Water gains energy and evaporates creating water vapor. Water vapor rises in the atmosphere because of this thermal energy transfer. 

What is convection?

400
The force exerted on a given area by the weight of the air above it
What is air pressure?
400
The two main factors that determine the climate.
What are temperature and precipitation?
400

The measure of water vapor in the air.

What is humidity?

400
The weakest point of a hurricane.
What is the eye?
400

These global winds in the United States blow from West to East.

What is prevailing westerlies?

500

Why does a town in the middle of a Florida swamp experience more fog than a town in a desert?

The swamp would have more water vapor in the air or humidity than a desert. 

500

Warm summers, mild to no winters, and usually high annual precipitation.

What is a Tropical climate?

500
When warm air moves in over a cold air mass and brings light steady rain or snow.
What is a warm front?
500
Warm humid air pulled into a funnel shaped column.
What is a tornado?
500

The narrow band of strong winds that blow in the upper region of the atmosphere and can move large air masses and effect the regional weather. 

What is the jet stream

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