Weather Patterns and Technology
This tool, or technology, uses radio waves to detect precipitation, storms, and their movement.
What is weather radar?
This Earth system includes rivers, streams, and oceans
What is the Hydrosphere?
This national monument is located in South Dakota.
What is Mount Rushmore?
This organelle is known as the “powerhouse of the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
This is the largest hot desert in the world.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This current elite NFL quarterback played his college ball at the University of Wyoming.
Who is Josh Allen?
This is distance divided by time.
What is speed?
This is a crack or facture in the Earth's crust.
What is a fault?
The boundary between two air masses.
What is a front?
The air and gases that surround Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
This is the the smallest U.S. state by land area.
What is Rhode Island?
These are the building blocks of every living thing.
What are cells?
While in the Air Force, Mr. Atkins was deployed to this small African country.
What is Djibouti?
This is the NHL hockey team located in Utah.
What is the Mammoth?
This is a push or a pull acting upon an object as a result of its interaction with another object, capable of changing the object's velocity, direction, or shape.
What is force?
Earthquakes are most directly caused by this.
What is plate movement at boundaries?
Scientists use this device to measure air pressure and help predict weather changes.
What is a barometer?
Rain, snow, sleet, or hail falling from clouds.
What is precipitation?
This is the capital city of New York.
What is Albany?
This is known as the brain of the cell.
What is the nucleus?
This country is known for its designer fashion and its pizza.
What is Italy?
This current NFL quarterback has won 3 Super Bowls and went to school at Texas Tech University.
Who is Patrick Mahomes?
This is speed plus a specific direction.
What is velocity?
This type of boundary forms mountains.
What is a convergent boundary?
A rapidly rotating column of air in contact with the ground.
What is a tornado?
Process where liquid water changes into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
This state is known for its cheese?
What is Wisconsin?
This is the first notable scientist credited with naming the cell.
Who is Robert Hooke?
This is the largest continent by land area.
What is Asia?
This is the NBA all time leader in assists.
Who is John Stockton?
This is the constant, maximum speed reached by a free-falling object.
What is terminal velocity?
This is a mountain that releases gas, magma, and lava.
What is a volcano?
Meteorologists use this to predict future weather conditions.
What is a forecast?
The solid Earth, including rocks, landforms, and soil.
What is the geosphere?
This state is home to Yellowstone National Park.
What is Wyoming?
These are made from 2 or more tissues.
What are organs?
This is the altitude of Mount Everest (you get it right if you are within 2,000 feet on either side).
What is 29,031 feet?
This NBA team was defeated by the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2020 NBA Championship in the "bubble".
Who is the Miami Heat?
This states that an object at rest stays at rest, and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced external force.
What is Newton’s First Law of Motion?
This is the hottest layer of the Earth.
What is the inner core?