Weather Factors
Climate Regions
Weather-related Hazards
Vocabulary
Life Science
100
The amount of clouds in the sky.
What is cloud cover?
100
A climate region that is dry and hot in the summer, cold in the winter.
What is desert?
100
A weather-related hazard in the winter or cold climate regions.
What is a blizzard?
100
The condition of the air outside at any given time.
What is weather?
100
The part of the mature plant where new seeds are formed.
What is the flower or fruit?
200
The measure of how fast the wind is blowing.
What is wind speed?
200
A climate region that is hot and wet.
What is tropical?
200
Something that people build next to rivers to reduce flood damage.
What is a flood wall?
200
The average conditions of the air over a long period of time.
What is climate?
200
The type of environment where fossils of fish would be found.
What is a water, or aquatic environment?
300
The direction the wind is going.
What is wind direction?
300
A climate zone that is cold and snowy.
What is the sub-arctic?
300
The location a person should go in a flood.
What is the highest level of the house?
300
The two weather factors that are most used to determine a climate region.
What are precipitation and temperature?
300
The next step an animal will take if the pond dries up where is catches fish to eat.
What is move to another place to find food?
400
The amount of rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation?
400
The climate zone of Louisville.
What is temperate?
400
Objects in the house you should stay away from in a severe thunderstorm or tornado.
What are windows?
400
The measure of whether the air is hot or cold.
What is temperature?
400
Baby animals with fur that usually look like their parents.
What are mammals?
500
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
500
The climate zone that is very cold and dry.
What is the arctic?
500
The location you should go in the house during a tornado.
What is a basement or small room without windows, such as a bathroom or closet.
500
The weather instrument used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
500
The process of a seed starting to grow.
What is germination?