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What Makes Weather?
Temperature
Wind, Rain & Snow
Weather & Climate
Extreme Weather
100
This is the blanket of air that surrounds Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
100
A tool that measures temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100
When warm air rises, cooler air moves in from the sides to take its place.
How is wind formed?
100
These are three types of clouds.
What are Cirrus, Nimbus, & Cumulous?
100
A strong storm that brings wind, rain, thunder and lightning. They happen all over the world mostly in the spring and summer.
What is a thunderstorm?
200
What the atmosphere is like at a certain time and place.
What is weather?
200
These are the two most common temperature scales.
What are Celsius and Fahrenheit?
200
This tool measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
200
A large body of air of the same temperature and humidity.
What is an air mass?
200
A large spinning storm that forms over a tropical ocean. It rains very hard and causes ocean waters to rise.
What is a hurricane?
300
How warm or cool something is.
What is temperature?
300
If water boils at 212 degrees and freezes at 32 degrees, I'm using this temperature scale.
What is Fahrenheit?
300
These are two tool used to show wind direction.
What are a wind vane and a wind sock?
300
Where two air masses meet.
What is a front?
400
Water in the air is water vapor. This is the amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
400
If water boils at 100 degrees and freezes at 0 degrees, I'm using this temperature scale.
What is Celsius?
400
This is the cycle of precipitation, evaporation, and condensation.
What is the water cycle?
400
An area's expected weather over a long period of time.
What is Climate?
400
A powerful, quickly spinning air mass. They can form during a thunderstorm.
What is a tornado?
500
This heats the earth's surface, which heats the air near to the ground.
What is the sun?
500
These are the two most common types of thermometers.
What are bulb and spring thermometers?
500
This is a tool that measures the amount of precipitation.
What is a rain gauge?
500
These are the 3 main types of climate.
What are tropical, temperate and polar?
500
These are two things engineers can build to protect people from extreme weather. (one is for electricity and one if for flooding)
What are lightning rods and levees?