White fluffy things fall from the sky in the winter for long periods of time with high winds and extreme low temperatures, and low visibility
What is a blizzard
100
What two things are responsible for transferring heat and cold between the tropics and polar regions
What is wind and ocean currents?
100
A tropical cyclonic storm having winds in excess of 119km per hour.
What is a hurricane
100
The person that I am married to that likes to visit.
Who is Mr. Moon
200
The amount of energy released at the source of an earthquake.
What is the magnitude of an earthquake?
200
Buildings destroyed, loss of life, power outages, and flooding.
What is damage caused by severe weather?
200
The locations most important during ocean circulation
What is the north and south poles or arctic circle and Antartica
200
Earthquake wave that pushes and pulls rocks in the direction of the wave; also know as a compression wave.
What is a P wave?
200
The names of my two children
Who is Drew and Gabby
300
Two of the scales for measuring earthquakes.
What is Modified Mercalli Intensity scale, Moment Magnitude scale, Richter scale?
300
Name 3 types of severe weather that happen in Michigan
What is tornados, floods, thunderstorms, and blizzards
300
The warm air current responsible for drought in Australia, ice storms in Canada, and severe rain fall on the West Coast of the US.
What is El Nino
300
The rising of cold water from deeper layers to replace warmer surface water that has been moved away.
What is upwelling
300
My favorite sport to watch either live or on TV.
What is Hockey
400
Scientists cannot do this with accuracy when talking about when or where one will occur
What is earthquake prediction?
400
air from 2 different directions meet, wind rotates inside cloud, then goes vertical and lowers to the ground
What is how a tornado is formed
400
Vertical movement of water that thorough mixes deep water masses
What is deep ocean circulation
400
an instrument that records seismic waves.
What is a seismograph
400
Name 2 out of 3 of my pets names
What is Chip, Bubba, and Piggy
500
Liquefaction, tsunamis, landslides, and seismic shaking
What is natural disasters due to earthquakes?
500
When there is little to no precipitation over a long period of time.
What is drought?
500
The arctic current flows near Hawaii it changes the climate by doing what.
What is cooling the air around it?
500
A phenomenon, sometimes associated with earthquakes, in which soils and other unconsolidated materials saturated with water are turned into liquid that is not able to support buildings
What is liquefaction?
500
2 of my sisters names
What is Nicole, Jessica, Chelsea, Erica, and Katrina