Climate 😙
Natural Disasters 😬
Science of Weather 🤔
Weather Vocab 🗣
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100
What is the warmest kind of climate?
Temperate
Tropical
Tundra
Tropical
100
Where is the safest place to be during a tornado?
Basement/lowest level of a building.
100
What is a scientist who studies weather called?
Meteorologist
100
What are balls or irregular lumps of ice that fall from clouds (often during thunderstorms) known as?
Hail
100
What character from the Incredibles has ice powers?
Frozone
200
These emissions cause damage to the ozone layer and trap heat within Earth's atmosphere.
Greenhouse gases (bonus for CO2, methane, &/or nitrous oxide)
200
Natural disaster in Pompeii circa AD 79 that preserved the city in ash:
Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius/Volcanic eruption
200
What is the primary gas in Earth's atmosphere?
Nitrogen
200
Rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to the ground.
Precipitation
200
What is the name of this Lady Gaga song about weather? (ft. Ariana Grande)
Rain on Me
300
Which of the following is a renewable energy source?
Coal
Wind
Oil
Natural gas
Wind
300
Natural disaster that devastated San Francisco in 1906, destroying 80% of the city.
The San Francisco Earthquake
300
Which instrument is used to measure atmospheric pressure?
Barometer
300
The richter scale measures the magnitude of these natural disasters.
Earthquakes
300
What band sings the song 'Thunderstruck'?
ACDC ⚡⚡
400
Which of the following sectors is the largest contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions?
Agriculture
Transportation
Industry
Electricity and heat production
Electricity and heat production
400
Devastating natural disaster caused by a magnitude-9 earthquake off the coast of Japan.
2011 Japanese Tsunami
400
What phenomenon is characterized by unusually warm ocean temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific equatorial region? (Hint: in Spanish!)
El Niño
400
Clouds that form at/on Earth's surface.
Fog
400
What song (by Rihanna) is Tom Holland lip synching to here?
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Umbrella
500
In 1913 the world-record air temperature of 134 °F was recorded in what country?
United States
Saudi Arabia
Antarctica
Ecuador
United States
500
Climate crisis in the 1930s caused by strong winds blowing up topsoil and a prolonged drought.
The Dust Bowl
500
What are the three main types of clouds?
Stratus, cirrus, cumulus
500
What is the common name for a tropical cyclone in the Northwest Pacific?
Typhoon/hurricane
500
"What's the best kind of fireworks to buy?" "_______"
"Wouldn't you like to know weatherboy..."