Weather Tools
This tool is used to measure the temperature of a solid, liquid or gas
What is a thermometer?
As altitude increases, this happens to both air pressure and air density
What is decrease?
The difference in charge between the top and bottom of a thunderstorm is called this (think battery)
What is a voltage?
Most Tornadoes form in this type of storm
What is a thunderstorm?
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?
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?
What is high pressure to low pressure?
This phenomenon causes particles that are rubbing against one another to produce a net charge difference required for lighting to occur.
What is friction?
This is the most severe scale of tornado as measured by the Fujita Scale
What is F5?
This is the name of the scale used to measure the power of tornadoes
What is the Fujita Scale?
This weather tool uses special wavelengths of light in order to determine the temperature of weather from below
What is Infrared Imagery?
This is the name of the high altitude "rivers" of air that circle around the earth at high speeds
What are Jet Streams?
This type of precipitation oftentimes accompanies thunderstorms
What is hail?
What is Tornado Warning?
This term describes the difference in windspeed and direction as you move up in the atmosphere
What is Shear?
This family of tools measures the amount of moisture in the atmosphere
What are Water Vapor measurements?
This Phenomenon causes curving or deflecting weather patterns due to the rotation of the Earth
What is the Coriolis Effect?
This is the cause of Thunder, the loud boom that an observer hears slightly after seeing lightning.
These are the two factors that scientists look at to determine the strength of a tornado
What are Wind Speed and Damage?
This is the type of thunderstorm typically associated with thunderstorms
What is a Mesocyclone?
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?
List three reasons that temperature may vary from region to region
Answers may vary
Draw a diagram of the motion of air inside a thundercloud
Great Job!
These are the four things needed for a tornado to form
What are Shear, Lift, Instability, and Moisture?
This term describes a molecule whose electrons are not uniformly distributed, giving it properties like a magnet
What is Polar?