Weather Tools
Atmospheric Movement
Thunderstorms
Tornadoes
Vocab
100

This family of tools uses light that can be seen with a human eye to produce pictures and measure reflected and refracted light

What is Visible Light Imagery?

100

This is how Altitude relates to Air Pressure

What is "As Altitude increases, Air Pressure Decreases"?

100

The difference in charge between the top and bottom of a thunderstorm is called this (think battery)

What is a voltage?

100

Most Tornadoes form in this type of storm

What is a thunderstorm?

100

This term is the common name for the motion of air, which generally moves from regions of high pressure to low pressure.

What is Wind?

200

This weather tool uses special wavelengths of light in order to determine the temperature of weather from below

What is Infrared Imagery?

200

Wind moves from regions with (low/high)_____ pressure to regions with (low/high)_____ pressure


What is high pressure to low pressure?

200

This phenomenon causes particles that are rubbing against one another to produce a net charge difference required for lighting to occur.

What is friction?

200

This is the most severe scale of tornado as measured by the Fujita Scale

What is F5?

200

This is the name of the scale used to measure the power of tornadoes

What is the Fujita Scale?

300

This family of tools measures the amount of moisture in the atmosphere 

What are Water Vapor measurements?

300

This is the name of the high altitude "rivers" of air that circle around the earth at high speeds

What are Jet Streams?

300

This is the cause of Thunder, the loud boom that an observer hears slightly after seeing lightning.

What is rapid cooling & contraction of superheated air

300
Small regions will enter this status when a Tornado has been spotted and is immenently going to pass through, or very nearby.

What is Tornado Warning?

300

This term describes the difference in windspeed and direction as you move up in the atmosphere

What is Shear?

400

This tool measures changes in pitch or frequency of waves emitted by an object as it travels towards or away from the measuring tool

What is Doppler Effect?

400

This Phenomenon causes curving or deflecting weather patterns due to the rotation of the Earth

What is the Coriolis Effect?

400

What are the four main Ingredients for a thunderstorm to form?

(Hint: Think SLIM)

What are 

Shear

Lift

Instability

Moisture

400

These are the two factors that scientists look at to determine the strength of a tornado

What are Wind Speed and Damage?

400

This is the type of thunderstorm typically associated with thunderstorms

What is a Mesocyclone?

500

Some weather tools will use this principal to measure how waves bounce off of weather.

What is reflectivity?

500

In the Northern Hemisphere, high pressure systems rotate this way

What is Clockwise

500

Draw a diagram of the motion of air inside a thundercloud

Great Job!

500

These are the four things needed for a tornado to form

What are Shear, Lift, Instability, and Moisture?

500

This term describes a molecule whose electrons are not uniformly distributed, giving it properties like a magnet

What is Polar?