Weather Factors
Weather Tools
Climate and Zones
Weather Hazards
Protection From Weather Hazards
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A measure of how hot or cold something is.
What is TEMPERATURE?
100
A tool used to measure temperature.
What is THERMOMETER?
100

What is the difference between weather and climate?

Weather is what happens from day to day, climate is weather trends in an area over a long period of time 

100
A storm that always has lightning and thunder, often accompanied by rain, hail, and high winds.
What is a THUNDERSTORM?
100
Ways to protect yourself during a flood.
What is going to high ground?
200

The three factors of weather

What are temperature, wind, and precipitation

200
A tool used to measure rainfall.
What is a RAIN GAUGE?
200

Name the 5 climate zones

Polar, Tropical, Temperate, Continental, & Dry

200
It begins as a funnel cloud with spinning columns of air that drop down from a severe thunderstorm. Characterized by spinning winds, up to 300 miles per hour, which can lift houses into the air and rip trees from the ground.
What is a TORNADO?
200

What are ways to reduce the impact of floods?

Dams, Earth materials like rock, and walls

300
What the conditions in the air outside are like at a certain time and place.
What is Weather?
300
The two units used to measure degrees on a thermometer
What Celcius and Fahrenheit?
300

What is someone who studies the climate called?

What is a climatologist?

300
It results from days of heavy rain and/or melting snows, when rivers rise and go over their banks.
What is a FLOOD?
300

What are ways to protect yourself during a blizzard?

Stay warm, wear layers, and make sure you have what you need in your home so you don't have to go out

400
The general patter of weather in an area over a long period of time
What is Climate?
400

2 weather tools that measures wind direction.

Wind vane and wind sock

400

What climate zone would it be if it is hot all the time and it has a rainy and dry season for precipitation?

What is a Tropical Climate Zone

400
An intense storm with swirling winds up to 150 miles per hour. Usually 1,000-5,000 times larger than tornadoes.
What is a HURRICANE?
400

How would you stay safe during an earthquake?

Stay low to the ground, crawl under a desk, get outside 

500
General name for water in any form falling from clouds. This includes rain, drizzle, hail, snow and sleet.
What is PRECIPITATION?
500
A weather tool that measures wind speed.
What is ANEMOMETER?
500

Which climate zone has very cold temperatures all year round and moderate precipitation?

Polar Climate Zone

500

An enormous and very hot spark of electricity produced by thunderstorms.

What is Lightning?

500

What is a way to keep safe during a tornado?

Going inside a storm shelter.

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