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Weather
Forecasting
Hurricanes/Tornados
Weathering
Earth
100
The state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place
What is weather
100
Measures wind speed
What is an anemometer
100
On this hemisphere hurricanes spin...
What is counterclockwise?
100
This physical process breaks rocks into fragments with the same chemical make-up and characteristics as the original rock.
What is Mechanical weathering?
100
This layer holds the plates that move for plate tectonics.
What is the lithosphere?
200
air moving in a specific direction
What is wind
200
Measures temperature of the air
What is a thermometer
200
The saffir-simpson scale is used to rate the destruction and force of
What is hurricanes
200
Wearing away and moving of surface materials by gravity, water, wind, or glaciers.
What is erosion?
200
remains, imprints, or traces of prehistoric organisms.
What are fossils?
300
These form as warm air is forced upward and cools
What are clouds.
300
Instrument that measures rain fall
What is a rain gauge?
300
Thunderstorms are generally associated with
What is tornadoes
300
Small streams that carry away soil creating a groove called a channel.
What is rill erosion?
300
Continents have moved slowly to their current locations.
What is continental drift?
400
Rotation of Earth causes moving air and water to change direction
What is the Coriolis Effect
400
This gives alerts to people in possibly affected areas.
What is weather forecasting?
400
The tornado classification scale is called
What is the Fugita scale?
400
Sheets of water flowing across land that pick up and carry away sediments
What is sheet erosion?
400
Causes mid-ocean ridges because plates move apart.
What is divergent boundaries?
500
Types of water falling from clouds
What is precipitation
500
This extreme weather type is the most common in Colorado.
What is blizzards.
500
This area of the US is call Tornado Valley
What is the Mid-west?
500
Wind removes small particles of loose sediment, leaving behind heavier materials.
What is deflation?
500
The largest volcano in the world is this.
What is a caldera volcano?