WEATHER BASICS
This scientist collects and analyzes weather data to make forecasts.
What is a meteorologist?
These lines connect places with the same air pressure on a weather map
What are isobars?
This localized storm is often accompanied by heavy precipitation, thunder, and lightning.
What is a thunderstorm?
This is the calm center of a hurricane.
What is the eye?
This occurs when water overflows onto land that is normally dry.
What is a flood?
This is a long period with little or no rainfall.
What is a drought?
These lines connect places with the same temperature.
What are isotherms?
This scale is used to categorize tornadoes based on the damage they cause.
What is the Fujita Scale?
Hurricanes get much of their energy from this.
What is warm ocean water?
This is an embankment built along a river to help prevent flooding.
What is a levee?
A forecast can never be this accurate all of the time.
What is 100% accurate?
This instrument measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
This is a storm with a violently rotating column of air that extends from a thunderstorm to the ground.
What is a tornado?
This is a dome of water that sweeps across the coast during a hurricane.
What is a storm surge?
These balloons carry instruments that collect weather data high in the atmosphere.
What are weather balloons?
These fast-moving bands of air high in the atmosphere help move weather systems around the globe.
What are jet streams?
A weather map has a line connecting two cities that both have a temperature of 75°F. This type of line is shown.
What is an isotherm?
If conditions are right for severe weather but the severe weather has not developed yet, this type of alert may be issued.
What is a storm watch?
When a hurricane moves over land, it loses its main source of energy because it is no longer over this.
What is warm ocean water?
A weather instrument measures temperature, another measures rainfall, and another measures air pressure. Name the instrument that measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
A meteorologist uses observations and data from many sources to do this—to predict what the weather will be like.
What is make a weather forecast?
A meteorologist wants to identify areas of high and low air pressure on a weather map. The meteorologist should look at these lines.
What are isobars?
A storm warning is different from a storm watch because a warning means severe weather is what?
What is occurring or imminent?
Warm ocean water causes warm, moist air to rise and provides energy that helps a hurricane develop. What happens to a hurricane when it moves over land?
What is it weakens because it loses its energy source?
A community builds a raised structure along a river to keep rising water from reaching nearby homes. What is this structure called?
What is a levee?