Rain or Shine
Weather Patterns
Controlling the Weather
Glossary & Index
100
This is a scientist who studies the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
100
A region where two air masses of different temperatures meet.
What is a front?
100
This is necessary for growing food.
What is precipitation?
100
solar radiation
What is energy, including light and heat, produced by the sun?
200
A prediction of weather conditions in the near future.
What is a forecast?
200
Name the two types of air masses in a front.
What are warm air and cold air?
200
A period in which less precipitation than normal falls.
What is a drought?
200
The long term weather conditions in a region.
What is climate?
300
Rain, snow and sleet.
What are types of precipitation?
300
This generally produces light rain and fog.
What is a warm front?
300
This is the method scientists have developed to control rainfall.
What is cloud seeding?
300
Using the index, the word "meteorologist" can be found on this page.
What is page 22?
400
These are located all around the world.
What are weather stations?
400
The picture on page 24 is an illustration of this kind of front.
What is a cold front?
400
The two types of materials used to cloud seed.
What are dry ice or crystals of silver iodide?
400
This is the purpose of a glossary?
What is to tell the meaning of unknown or special words?
500
Name the three types of way to collect data on weather.
What are weather balloons, weather stations, and weather satellites?
500
The orange arrows in the diagrams on page 25 indicate this. (Please be specific!)
What is the flow of warm air?
500
These are the two methods to get the materials into the clouds.
What are airplanes and rockets?
500
This is the purpose of an Index at the back of a book.
What is to tell the page number that has a special word?
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