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100
What do we use to measure temperature?
A. Micrometer
B. Thermometer
C. Odometer
Thermometer - Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit FRS was a physicist, inventor, and scientific instrument maker, born in Poland to a family of German extraction. Fahrenheit invented thermometers accurate and consistent enough to allow the comparison of temperature measurements between different observers using different instruments
100
What is considered the most popular channel to get the weather?
A. CBS Weather
B. Fox Weather
C. The Weather Channel
The Weather Channel - Launched on May 2, 1982, the channel broadcasts weather forecasts and weather-related news and analysis, along with documentaries and entertainment programming related to weather.
100
What farm animal is said to lie down when rain is coming?
A. Chicken
B. Pig
C. Cow
Cow - According to Live Science, some say that cows can sense increasing air moisture and lie down to preserve a patch of dry grass for grazing. The second theory presented by Live Science is that cows lie down to ease their stomachs, which are sensitive to atmospheric pressure that is brought on by rain
100
What types of storm typically involves Thunder and Lightening?
A. Snow Storm
B. Thunderstorm
C. Sandstorm
Thunderstorm - A thunderstorm, also known as an electrical storm or a lightning storm, is a storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere, known as thunder. Relatively weak thunderstorms are sometimes called thundershowers.
100
What does "under the weather" mean?
A. Tired
B. Sick
C. Happy
Sick - Supposedly, way back then, when a sailor was feeling bad, he would retreat below the deck—away from the weather above—which could be described as being under the weather. Another theory claims that the idiom came to be via the old idea that the weather has a strong influence on one's health.
200
What do we call a scientist who studies the weather?
A. Meteorologist
B. Archeologist
C. Hydrologist
Meteorologist - A meteorologist is an individual with specialized education who uses scientific principles to explain, understand, observe or forecast the earth's atmospheric phenomena and/or how the atmosphere affects the earth and life on the planet.
200
Who is considered the founder of Meteorology?
A. Da Vinci
B. Aristotle
C. Newton
Aristotle - Aristotle is considered the founder of meteorology. One of the most impressive achievements described in the Meteorology is the description of what is now known as the hydrologic cycle. Aristotle correctly hypothesized that the sun played a role in the Earth's hydraulic cycle in his book Meteorology, writing "By it [the sun's] agency the finest and sweetest water is everyday carried up and is dissolved into vapor and rises to the upper regions, where it is condensed again by the cold and so returns to the earth.", and believed that clouds were composed of cooled and condensed water vapor
200
This animal flies high in clear weather, but closer to the ground when a storm is coming?
A. Bird
B Pterodactyl
C. Lemur
Birds - Some can sense changes in metabolic pressure, and when the air pressure drops, they fly closer to the ground, where the air density is less heavy. Birds have an organ in their inner ear that is sensitive to air pressure. When air pressure drops before a storm (usually low pressure system produces rain), the birds experience pain in this organ, and fly low or land in an attempt to deal with the pain.
200
What type of weather do we wish for around the Holidays?
A. Rainy
B. Sunny
C. Snowy
Snowy - Snow is precipitation in the form of ice crystals. It originates in clouds when temperatures are below the freezing point (0 degrees Celsius, or 32 degrees Fahrenheit), when water vapor in the atmosphere condenses directly into ice without going through the liquid stage.
200
What does "steal my thunder" mean?
A. Receive someone else's praise
B. Blow up something
C. Steal someone's vehicle
Receive someone else's praise -to prevent someone from having success or getting attention, praise, etc., by doing or saying whatever that person was planning to do or say.
300
What is the layer of air around the earth called?
A. Abyssal Zone
B. Mantle
C. Atmosphere
Atmosphere - The atmosphere is a mixture of gases that surrounds the Earth. It helps make life possible by providing us with air to breathe, shielding us from harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation coming from the Sun, trapping heat to warm the planet, and preventing extreme temperature differences between day and night.
300
When was the first weather television broadcast?
A. 1730s
B. 1890s
C. 1920s
1920s - A weather map was first broadcast on TV on 18th August, 1926 – but there were no fancy graphics, no on-screen forecaster, and only one intended recipient: the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Washington, DC.
300
This amphibian croaks louder and longer, that means a storm is coming?
A. Salamander
B. Turtle
C. Frog
Frog - Male frogs croak after it rains because they're trying to attract a mate. Rain creates the optimal conditions for the females to lay eggs in fresh pools of water. Not only that but frogs like moist, humid weather.
300
Massive storm with intense winds and rain, tends to be extremely destructive?
A. Heat Lightning
B. Ice Storm
C. Hurricane
Hurricane - A Hurricane is... A tropical system with winds that have reached a constant speed of 74 miles per hour or more. The eye of a storm is usually 20-30 miles wide, and a hurricane may be over 400 miles wide. The dangers of a storm include torrential rains, high winds, storm surges and tornadoes.
300
What does "Raining cats and dogs" mean?
A. Soft Rain
B. Flooded Streets
C. Hard Rain
Hard Rain - The phrase is supposed to have originated in England in the 17th century. City streets were then filthy and heavy rain would occasionally carry along dead animals.
400
What's it called when water turns from a liquid to a gas?
A. Evaporation
B. Liquidation
C. Photosynthesis
Evaporation - Evaporation is the process by which a liquid turns into a gas. It is also one of the three main steps in the global water cycle.
400
When was the first ever weather prediction posted to the public?
A. 1950s
B. 1780s
C. 1860s
1860s -First published in The Times in 1861 and syndicated in titles across Britain, “weather forecasts” (a term invented by Fitzroy) soon became fantastically popular. Their appeal instantly stretched beyond just fishermen and sailors. Organizers of country fairs, fetes and flower shows obsessed over them. They also had a particular appeal for the horseracing classes who used the predictions to help them pick their outfits or lay their bets.
400
This insects chirps are said to be a way to determine temperature?
A. Grasshopper
B. Cricket
C. Mosquito
Cricket - Each species has its own chirp and chirping is temperature dependent. Crickets chirp faster with increasing temperature and slower with decreasing temperatures. Therefore, at least in theory, the temperature can be estimated by counting the chirps. The simplest method is to count the number of chirps in 15 seconds and add 40. The sum usually approximates the temperature within a few degrees Fahrenheit. The original formula for determining temperature from cricket chirps appears to have been published in 1897 by A.E. Dolbear, a physics professor at Tufts College.
400
Large baseball sized balls of ice that fall from the sky?
A. Hail
B. Rain
C. Snow
Hail - Hailstones are formed when raindrops are carried upward by thunderstorm updrafts into extremely cold areas of the atmosphere and freeze. Hailstones then grow by colliding with liquid water drops that freeze onto the hailstone's surface.
400
What does "Calm before the storm" mean?
A. Brief calm before chaos
B. Feeling sick
C. Easy Task
Brief calm before chaos -The calm before the storm started as a phrase sailors used. They were referring to an actual weather phenomenon they observed at sea. They noticed that, just before a storm, the air around them seemed to get very still. Even the waves would calm for a few moments.
500
Craft that orbits the earth and helps with weather predictions?
A. Submarine
B. Satellite
C. UFO
Satellite - On April 1, 1960, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched TIROS-1, the world's first successful meteorological satellite.
500
What was the worst weather event in history?
A. Locust Plague
B. Great Galveston Hurricane
C. Mississippi River Flood
Great Galveston Hurricane - Galveston hurricane of 1900, hurricane of September 1900, one of the deadliest natural disasters in U.S. history, claiming more than 8,000 lives. As the storm hit the island city of Galveston, Texas, it was a category 4 hurricane, the second strongest designation on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale.
500
This mammals ears can detect a drop in atmospheric pressure?
A. Cat
B. Elephant
C. Bear
Cat - because cats have highly sensitive ears and noses, those acute senses can be more intuitive to changes in atmospheric pressure. “Cats' senses are much stronger than ours,” Callihan told The Dodo. “Before a storm, natural disaster or a change in temperature hits, cats can feel, hear and even smell it.”
500
Clouds close to the ground, typically formed by moist warm and cool air mixing together?
A. Squall
B. Fog
C. Haze
Fog - is a cloud that touches the ground. Fog can be thin or thick, meaning people have difficulty seeing through it. In some conditions, fog can be so thick that it makes it hard to drive safely because it obscures the road and other cars.
500
What does "I'm on cloud 9" mean?
A. Depressed
B. Extremely Happy
C. Sick
Extremely happy - One commonly cited explanation is that the expression derives from the classifications of clouds defined by the US Weather Bureau in the 1950s, in which 'Cloud Nine' is listed as the fluffy cumulonimbus type considered to be the most attractive of all cloud formations.
