Severe Weather
Clouds/ water cycle
Climate Zones
Weather/Climate/ fronts
Atmosphere / weather tools
100
What is a usually brief, has storms that consists of rain, strong winds, lightning and thunder?
What is a thunderstorm
100
What cloud is shown in this picture
Cumulonimbus
100
Name three of the climate zones in the world?
What is tropical, temperate, and polar
100
What is a specific event that happens over a few hours, days or weeks
Weather
100
Which tool would be used to measure the amount of precipitation that has fallen during a storm?
Rain Gauge
200
What should you NEVER do in order to stay safe during a Thunderstorm?
hide under a tree
200
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
Fill in the missing parts of the water cycle
precipitation----> ___________-----> ___________ ----> __________ ---->precipitation
collection / runoff ----> evaporation----> condensation---->
200
What climate zone is very hot and is found near the equator?
What is tropical
200
Draw the symbols that show a cold front and warm front on a map
200
In what layer of the atmosphere would you find spaceships and satellites?
Exosphere
300
What is a destructive, rotating column of air that has very high wind speeds, is visible as a funnel-shaped cloud, and touches the ground?
What is tornado
300
What cloud is shown here
Cirrus clouds
300
Which climate zone typically has very harsh winters and very cold climates?
What is polar
300
A scientist who studies the atmosphere and weather
a meteorologist
300
Which weather tool measures the wind speed?
Anemometer
400
What is a severe storm that develops over tropical oceans and whose strong winds of more than 120 km/h spiral in toward intensely low pressure storm center?
What is hurricane
400
What type of clouds a grey in color and stretch across the sky?
Stratus
400
What climate zone has moderate winters and summers?
What is temperate
400
What is known as the average weather conditions in a place for many years?
Climate
400
In what layer of the atmosphere is the ozone found?
The Stratosphere
500
In order to stay safe during a hurricane you should...?
make and evacuation plan ahead of time, board up windows and stay indoors, avoid downed powerlines, bring pets indoors, avoid walking through flood waters, prepare for no power for long periods of time
500
This is when water vapor (gas) COOLS and turns back into a liquid.
condensation
500
Which climate zone do we have here in South Carolina?
What is the temperate?
500
What front is created when cold air moves under the warm air pushing it up?
What is cold front
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
Put the layers of the atmosphere in order from bottom to top.
troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere.