Weather
Types of Weather
Fronts
Severe Weather
100
A ________________ is a collection of millions of tiny water droplets or ice crystals.
What is a cloud?
100
A weather forecast says that a high pressure area will soon move into your area. If the skies are currently overcast, what will happen as the high-pressure area moves in?
What is the skies will clear up?
100
A ________________________________ develops when an air mass at the Earth’s surface rises.
What is a low-pressure system?
100
What is a tornado and what are the safety preventative measures? Why is the United States mostly affected by tornados?
What is a destructive, rotating column of air that has high wind speeds, is visible as a funnel-shaped cloud, and touches the ground? Find shelter quickly and go to a basment or a room that has not windows? The United States is effected the most because of the Appalachian and Rocky Mountains?
200
Balls or lumps of ice are called _______________.
What is hail?
200
In the United States, in which direction do prevailing wind patterns tend to move?
What is west to east?
200
A ________________________________ develops when an air mass sinks towards the ground.
What is high pressure?
200
What is a flood and what are the safety preventative measures? How was the Little Falls community affected by Hurricane Irene?
What is a great flowing or overflowing of water, especially over land not usually submerged? Many people evacuated their homes from Hurricane Irene and had to rebuild their homes?
300
________________ is the amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
300
What is the name for the boundary between two air masses of differing temperature, air pressure, and humidity?
What is a front?
300
A _______________________ is a mass of cold air moving to replace warm air.
What is a cold front?
300
What is a hurricane? What are the safety preventative measures?
What is a severe storm that develops over tropical oceans and whose strong winds of more that 120 km/h spiral in toward the intensely low-pressure strom center? You should evacuate, cover your windows with plywood, and have a disaster supply kit?
400
When air holds all of the water that it can at a given temperature, it is said to be ____________.
What is saturated?
400
What is the primary cause of the Earth’s weather systems?
What is the uneven heating of the Earth's surface by the Sun?
400
A _______________________ is a mass of warm air moving in to replace cold air.
What is a warm front?
400
What is a wildfire? How are they caused?
What is any large fire that spreads rapidly and is hard to extinguish? They can be caused by lightning or campfires?
500
A ___________________________ produces light to heavy, continuous rain.
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
500
In which of the following phase changes is water absorbing heat energy?
A. frost forms inside a freezer B. an ice cube melts C. vapor from a steaming kettle turns into water droplets D. water in an ice cube tray freezes
500
On a warm sunny day, Raul poured a glass of ice water. He noticed that beads of water formed on the outside of the glass almost immediately. Which part of the water cycle corresponds to what Raul saw?
A. Water seeping through layers of rock and soil B. Steam rising from a pot of boiling water C. Water vapor cooling and forming clouds D. Rainwater striking a glass windshield
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