The names of the first two pilots to successfully circumnavigate the globe in a hot air balloon.
Who are Bertrand Piccard and Brain Jones?
100
This is when water flows in one general direction.
What is a current?
100
These type of sun's rays are associated with colder weather.
What are slanting rays?
100
This type of storm has three stages which include the developing stage, mature stage, and final stage.
What is a thunderstorm?
100
This occurs when the air is very moist and much warner than its surroundings so it will quickly go up into the atmosphere.
What is a severe summer thunderstorm?
200
This is a high altitude, high speed wind.
What is a jet stream?
200
This is a shift in the ocean currents temperatures (water becomes warmer) and atmospheric conditions in the tropical Pacific ocean.
What is El Nino?
200
These type of the sun's rays are associated with warmer weather.
What are vertical rays?
200
This develops in a thunderstorm when electricity travels between positively and negatively charged parts of a cloud.
What is lightning?
200
This is a flood that occurs with little or no warning
What is a flash flood?
300
Along with mid-latitude westerlies, and polar easterlies, these are prevailing winds found in the NORTHERN hemisphere.
What are northeast trade winds?
300
We get large amounts of __________ if a body of water is warm, evaporation rate is high and clouds form.
What is precipitation?
300
These high speed winds are caused by extreme pressure differences at about 10 km above Earth's surface.
What are jet streams?
300
This is the wind speed associated with tornadoes?
What is 500 km/h?
300
This is a flood that covers large areas of land and can last for months
What is a broadside flood?
400
These are low altitude winds that Christopher Columbus took advantage of
What are prevailing winds?
400
Ottawa is colder than St. John's in the winter time because of the warm, moist air brought northward by the ________ _________ off the coast of NL.
What is the Gulf Stream?
400
These winds are formed by warm air rising over the equator toward the poles and being replaced by cooler air from higher latitudes.
What are prevailing winds?
400
This is a unique part of a hurricane, a calm, clear area in the centre.
What is the eye?
400
This is an excess of water from rain, rivers or oceans that can't run off or be soaked up by the land
What is a flood?
500
Along with mid-latitude westerlies, and polar easterlies, these are prevailing winds found in the SOUTHERN hemisphere.
What are southeast trade winds?
500
This gets to the surface of the ocean when the wind blows warm surface water away from the land. Cold deep water rises to replace the warmer surface water and brings _________ to the surface.
What are nutrients?
500
Eight factors that affect the weather on a global scale include: 1. the sun's energy, 2. cloud cover, 3. Earth's rotation, 4. jet streams, 5. prevailing winds, 6. ocean currents, 7. land masses, and 8. ________________
What is the Hydrosphere?
500
These are severe storms with strong winds and low temperatures.
What are blizzards?
500
The release of _________________ keeps thunderstorms going.