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Severe weather
Weather instruments
Properties of air
Atmosphere
Hodgepodge
100
This cone shaped system is created when severely hot and very cold air collide.
What is a tornado?
100
Whew!!! It feels hot in here. I am going to use this thermometer to find out this.
What is the temperature?
100
This is the most abundant gas in the air.
What is nitrogen?(percent?)
100
This is the layer of the atmosphere that we are standing in right now.
What is the troposphere?
100
The second most abundant gas in the air is this.
What is oxygen?
200

Hurricanes always begin over these.

What are oceans?

200
Where...or where...is north? OH...this will help me find it.
What is a compass?
200

A force that pushes back is called this.

What is pressure?

200

Dangerous shooting stars are burned up here.

What is the mesosphere?

200

Meteorology is the study of this.

What is weather?

300

This is the most severe category for a hurricane? 

What is a category 5?

300
It feels like the air is pressing down on me today. I wonder if the air pressure has increased. This instrument will come in handy today.
What is a barometer?
300
The air is being squished in the syringe. We say this is happening to the air.
What is compressed?
300
If you travel from the United States to England in this area of the atmosphere, you may cut more than an hour off of your flight.
What is the jet stream?
300

The name of the first tropical storm of every season begins with this. 

What is the letter A?

400

Sandy will not be the name of an Atlantic Storm in the next six years because of this.

What is the devestating impact of the storm?

400
What a hot and sticky day it is!!! I am going to use my hygrometer to find the humidity and it will indicate the humidity in this unit.
What is percent?
400

If I fill a soccer ball with air this will happen to its weight.

What is increase?

400

In the ionosphere, you will find me, brightening and coloring the sky at night.

What is the northern lights?

400

The four letters of the alphabet never used in the Hurricane Naming system. 

What are Q, X, Y, and Z. 

500

Australian forecasters at one time named their hurricanes after these.

Who are politicians?

500
Holy moly!!! that wind almost blew my hat off. I am going to use this tool to measure the next big gust.
What is an anemometer?
500
This is pulling down on all matter, including air, to give it its weight.
What is gravity?
500

I help protect all living things from the harmful rays of the sun.

What is the ozone layer?

500

Plants take in this gas and use sunlight to convert it into energy and then release oxygen.

What is carbon dioxide?