Thunderstorms
Tornadoes
Weather Instruments
Weather Maps
"Hodge Podge"
100
Get their energy from this type of air
What is humid?
100
Continent where most tornadoes occur
What is North America?
100
Detects cloud heights and precipitation. Dopplar is one type
What is radar?
100
Shown in patches of blue, green, yellow, and red
What is precipitation?
100
Scientist who studies weather
What is a meteorologist?
200
Air around lightning is briefly heated to a temperature hotter than this
What is the surface of the sun?
200
A tornado is a violently rotating column of this
What is air?
200
Orbits the Earth and detects clouds, temperature and water vapor
What is a satellite?
200
Thin lines which connect places that have the same pressure
What are isobars?
200
Line on a weather with triangles indicates this type of front
What is a cold front?
300
Pellets of this move up and down in the cloud
What is ice
300
Becomes visible when these appear below the cloud in the rotating column
What are water droplets?
300
Measures air at different layers of the atmosphere
What is a weather balloon?
300
Two capital letters found on a weather map to indicate pressure systems
What are 'H' and 'L'?
300
Safest place to be during a tornado
What is the basement?
400
Thunderstorms rarely occur in California because the air does not have this
What is moisture?
400
This is impossible to predict for a tornado
What is its path?
400
Works in a small local area to gather current weather conditions
What is a ground station?
400
Type of radiation that can show cloud cover 24 hours a day
What is infrared?
400
Devastating hurricane in New Orleans in 2005
What is Katrina?
500
A tornado moves along with this
What is a thunderstorm
500
Important tool for the creation of maps and making forecasts
What is a computer?
500
This type of storm can develop into a hurricane
What is a tropical storm?
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