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Eagles
100
This is the difference between an invertebrate and a vertebrate.
What is an intvertebrate has no backbone and a vertebrate has a backbone?
100
Hurricanes begin here.
What is over a warm ocean or gulf?
100
These are three properties of air.
What is mass, density, and pressure?
100
An anemometer is use for this purpose.
What is to measure wind speed?
100
This is incubation time for a bald eagle egg.
What is 31 to 45 days?
200
This vertebrate's skeleton is made of cartilage.
What is a shark?
200
Tornadoes begin here.
What is over the land where hot and cold air masses meet?
200
These are two types of barmometers.
What are a mercury barometer and an aneroid barmometer?
200
A hygrometer is used by meteorologists for this.
What is to measure relative humidity?
200
Which weighs more, a bald eagle's 7000 feathers or its skeleton?
What is it's feathers weight more--1.3 pounds vs. 0.5 for its skeleton?
300
This invetebrate is found in the digestive tracts of mammals.
What is a tapeworm?
300
Hurricanes damage comes from these two sources.
What is tidal surge and wind damage?
300
This is how altitude affect air pressure.
What is air pressure decreases as altitude increases. The higher up, the less air pressure and the few oxygen molecules.
300
This instrument measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
300
A bald eagle flies 30 mph. How far can in fly in 12 hours?
What is 360 miles?
400
This invertebrate is helpful in the garden.
What is an earthworm?
400
Tornados are usually found in this area.
What is tornado alley?
400
These are four things that should be included in a weather forecase.
What are temperature, air pressure, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, and chance of precipitation?
400
These two weather instruments are used together.
What is an anemometer to measure wind speed with a compass to tell the direction the wind is coming from?
400
This is the wing span of a bald eagle.
What is 6 to 7.5 feet wing span?
500
These are the four gases found in Earth's air.
What are oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and water vapor?
500
These are the three states that experience the most tornadoes.
What Texas, Oklahoma, and Colorado? (Some sources also consider Kansas in the top 3)
500
Tell which instruments match the following measurement scales: millibars, percent, miles per hour
What are mb = barometer, %=hygrometer, and mph= anemometer?
500
A meteorologist uses a thermometer that has two different scales. They are:
What is Fahrenheit and Celsius?
500
These are two remarkable facts about a bald eagle's nest.
What is it can weight up to 2 tons (4000 pounds) and it is usually at least 5 feet in diameter?