What's the Weather?
Wild Storms
True or False?
Hot & Cold
Careers in Weather
100
This is the word for how hot or cold the air outside is. You check it on a thermometer!
What is temperature?
100
This weather phenomenon has a funnel shape that rapidly spins and impacts the ground. It can blow away houses and cars!
What is a tornado?
100
True or False: If it's cloudy outside, you can still get a sunburn.
True! The suns rays pass through clouds!
100
This is the coldest season of the year. It snows, and you wear a heavy coat outside.
What is winter?
100
What do we call a scientist who studies weather for their job?
A meteorologist.
200
Clouds are made of millions of tiny drops of this and it is the same thing you drink every day!
What is water?
200
This is the name of the phenomenon that occurs during a thunderstorm. It is a bright flash of light in the sky.
What is lightning?
200
True or False: Lightning never strikes the same place twice.
False!
Tall buildings like the Empire State Building get struck hundreds of times a year!
200
This is the word for the usual weather a place has over a very long time. For example, in Florida this is very hot and humid while in Antarctica this very cold and dry.
What is climate?
200
What do we call a scientist who studies weather for their job?
A climatologist!
300
This is a small ball of ice that falls from storm clouds. Hint: It is not snow!
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What is Hail?
300
This dangerous winter storm has heavy snow AND very strong winds that make it almost impossible to see outside.
What is a blizzard?
300
True or False: It is smart to hide under an overpass if you are in the path of a tornado.
False! This can actually be more dangerous!
300
This is the imaginary line around the middle of the Earth that divides the Northern and Southern hemispheres. The areas closest to it are the hottest on Earth.
What is the equator?
300
This government agency is in charge of weather forecasting across the whole United States.
(Give initials as a hint of needed)
What is the National Weather Service (NWS).
400
This is the layer of air that wraps around the whole Earth like a blanket. All of our weather happens inside it!
What is the atmosphere?
400
Most hurricanes have a calm, clear center with no wind or rain. What is this part of the hurricane called?
What is the eye of the hurricane?
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400
True or False: Antarctica is a desert.
True!
400
Scientists at the Byrd Center drill deep into the Earth and pull out long tubes called these. The trapped air bubbles inside tell us what Earth's climate was like thousands of years ago!
What are Ice Cores?
400
These daring scientists fly their planes directly INTO hurricanes to measure wind speed and gather data. What are they nicknamed?
The hurricane hunters.