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Weather
Climate
Clouds
Land & Weather
Severe Weather
100
The amount of moisture in the air.
What is Humidity?
100
Weather conditions over a long time, atleast 30 years.
What is climate?
100
Scientist who studies and predicts the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
100
Land features which affect weather.
What is Mountains, Swamps and Deserts?
100
A funnel-shaped cloud of swirling winds that reach down to the ground.
What is a Tornado?
200
Snow, Sleet, Hail
What is Precipitation?
200
Determines an area's climate zones.
What is latitude?
200
A cloud at ground level.
What is fog?
200
A wind that comes from the south and moves north.
What is a southerly wind.
200
A severe weather storm that develops over low pressure areas of an ocean and lasts for days.
What is a Hurricane?
300
The state of the atmosphere, including its temperature, wind speed and direction, air pressure , moisture, amount of rain or snow and other factors.
What is weather?
300
Name the three climate zones.
What are Temperate, Polar and Tropical?
300
Name three main ingredients to form a cloud.
What water, dust and rising air.
300
Protects the sun rays , keeps the Earth warm, stops gasses from leaving Earth and going into space.
What is atmosphere?
300
A severe weather involving higher than normal temperatures.
What is a heat wave?
400
Rising and sinking of matter in a circular pattern due to heat.
What is Convection current?
400
Latitude, Nearby water, Elevation
What affects the climate?
400
Name the 5 common types of clouds.
What are cirrus, cumulonimbus, altocumulus, stratus, fog.
400
The shape of the Earth's surface in a particular place.
What is Topography?
400
supplies, water, non perishable food, first aid kit, batteries, shutters, gas, 2 exit plans.
What is Evacuation Plan?
500
Pushing force of the atmosphere.
What is Barometric pressure?
500
Six things that determine weather in a given place and time.
What are Air temperature, pressure, humidity, wind speed, wind direction and precipitation.
500
Huge puffy clouds that cause wind, lightning,hail or tornadoes.
What is cumulonimbus?
500
There are rarely clouds are precipitation in this area.
What is the desert?
500
Severe weather involving freezing wind.
What is a blizzard?