Our daily weather takes place in the earth’s ________. The Earth's heat comes mainly from the _______. The sun's rays hit the earth most directly at the _________.
What is the atmosphere, sun, and equator.
100
Large amounts of air that have the same temperature and humidity are called __________ and can be _______ or _______.
What are air masses, cold, warm
100
The sun is the _____ star to the earth, an average sized ______ (color) star, is made of ____ mainly ____, and is ___________ years old.
What is closest, yellow, gases, hydrogen, 4.6 million?
100
The order of the moon, sun and earth in size from largest to smallest.
What is sun, earth, and moon.
100
This is a severe snowstorm with strong winds.
What is a blizzard?
200
_________ is the measure of the amount of heat energy in the atmosphere. Air temperature is affected by the ____ of the year, the time of the _____, and the number of _______ hours. We use a _______ to measure temperature
What is temperature, time, day, daylight, and thermometer?
200
High pressure usually means ______ weather. Low pressure usually means ________ and _____________. A _________ measures air pressure.
What is fair, cloudy, precipitation, barometer?
200
Earth's surface is constantly __________. It is unlike other planets because it has: (3 things). It makes one ____ every 24 hours and one _______ every 365 1/4 days.
What is changing, 1) large amounts of life-supporting water,
2) an oxygen-rich atmosphere, 3) a protective atmosphere that blocks out most of sun’s damaging rays, rotation and revolution
200
The order of planets from the sun and the sentence to help you remember it.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? What is "My very exceptional mother just serves us nachos?"
200
This is a storm with heavy rain, wind, lightening, and sometimes hail.
What is a thunderstorm.
300
_______ are formed when tiny water droplets in the atmosphere join together. These form in layers and often bring precipitation. These are puffy and white clouds that usually mean fair weather. These bring thunderstorms.
These are white and feathery, and so high up that they often contain ice crystals and mean fair weather.
What are clouds, stratus, cumulus, cumulonimbus, and cirrus?
300
A ______ measures wind direction. An _________ measures wind speed.
What are wind vane and anemometer?
300
“The Reasons for the Seasons”
What are the earth’s movement and tilt?.
300
The order of the planets from largest to small and the sentence to remember it.
What is Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Earth, Venus, Mars, Mercury. "Jason served us nine extremely valuable matching mittens.
300
This is a large storm that forms over warm water with heavy rain and winds of 75 miles an hour or more.
What is a hurricane?
400
___________ is the name for any kind of moisture that falls from the clouds. We use a __________ to measure it.
Tiny pellets of ice that form when raindrops freeze as they fall are called ______. Liquid precipitation falling is called _____. Balls of ice that form in the clouds that can get as big as softballs fall as ______. Tiny ice crystals that form in clouds that have a very cold air temperature fall as _____.
What is precipitation, rain gauge, sleet, rain, hail, and snow.
400
The line where two air masses meet is called a ________.
What is a front?
400
Name the moon's phases from full moon to new moon.
What is waning gibbous, last quarter, waning crescent, new moon.
400
They proved the sun was the center of the solar system.
Who are Galileo and Copernicus?
400
This is a funnel-shaped storm that forms from a severe thunderstorm with very strong winds that can destroy everything in its path.
What is a tornado?
500
A person who studies the weather is called a __________. The U.S. government agency that provides weather information for the whole country is the ____________.
What is meteorologist and the National Weather Service.
500
_________ push warm air up quickly, cause clouds to form, and often bring rain and thunderstorms.
_____________ run into cold air masses, sliding up and over the cold air, often causing steady rain.
What are a Cold front, warm front?
500
Why were NASA’s Apollo missions important to our understanding of the moon?
What is a) set up instruments to record movement on the moon and to measure distances, b) collected samples of rocks and dust to determine what the moon was made of,
c) landed the first man on the moon in 1969.
500
They said the earth was the center of the solar system.
Who are Aristotle and Ptolemy?
500
Predictions of what the weather will be based on gathering and studying information are called ________. Weather information for making forecasts are collected from these three things.
What are forecasts, weather balloons, radar and satellites?