This instruments measures weather temperature. These are the names of the two types of the scales on this tool.
What is a Thermometer? What is Fahrenheit and Celsius?
100
These are the two types of air pressure systems.
What is high and low pressure?
100
These are four major types of severe weather.
What are Thunderstorms, Blizzards, Hurricanes, and Tornadoes?
100
This is how air masses are formed.
What is air that stays over an area for a long period of time? The air mass takes on the characters of the water or land.
100
The earth makes one full ______________ around the Sun. The earth makes one full ______________ on its axis.
What is revolution, rotation?
200
This weather instrument measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
200
With High pressure there is ___________________
With Low pressure there is ___________________.
What are warm and clear skies? What are stormy and cloudy conditions?
200
This is the name for sideways spinning air that is lifted up into a thunderstorm cloud.
What is a funnel cloud?
200
This is how a front works.
What is two air masses colliding together? The air front then travels in a specific direction.
200
These are the two processes that change rocks to different types of rocks. Bonus - name the three types of rocks in the rock cycle.
What is heat and pressure? Igneous, Metamorphic, and Sedimentary.
300
This weather instrument measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
300
This is the difference between weather and climate.
What is weather is the events that happen each day in our atmosphere. Climate is the average of the weather in any place over many years.
300
When a funnel cloud touches the ground.
What is a tornado?
300
This is a fast moving current of air about 5 to 7 miles above the surface of the earth. It travels at about 200 miles per hour.
What is the jet stream?
300
The moon is growing ____________ and shrinking ___________. Bonus - Name the moon when it is more than 50% lit up. Name the moon when it is less than 50% lit up.
What is waxing and waning. Gibbous and Cresent.
400
When you move higher in the atmosphere the air pressure gets............
What is lower?
400
When you get close to the Equator this is the name for the area where there is little or no wind.
What is doldrums?
400
Explain the process of thunder and lightning.
What is lightning strikes with a negative charge to positive ground? When lightning warms up the air so quickly thunder is the result of the warm air expanding. Lightning strikes the ground and gets a return strike. Lightning takes the quickest path to the ground.
400
This is the direction that most of the air travels.
What is West to East?
400
These are the five parts of the water cycle.
What is collection, evaporation, condensation, precipitation and runoff?
500
Explain the process of convection currents.
What is warm air rises and cool air replaces? It is a cycle.
500
Explain air pressure.
What is the air molecules lower to the ground are thicker (air has mass) and so are closer together. As you get higher in the atmosphere the molecules are thinner and further apart. At these points the air pressure is lower.
500
These are the three stages of a Thunderstorm.
What is Stage 1 - Warm moist air rapidly rising in updraft creating cumulus cloud. Stage 2 - cool air sinking mixed with warm moist air and precipitation cause friction inside the cloud. Stage 2 has thunder and lightning. Stage 3 - Rain and storm until cloud is finished and disappears?
500
This is how scientists study climate and weather.
What is look for patterns of weather such as, fossils of plants that might have existed in areas which now can't be a habitat for that plant. Then they know the climate of the land has changed over hundreds of years.
500
These are the three states of matter for water. Give an example for each.
What is solid - ICE, liquid- WATER, and gas- WATER VAPOR.