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Instruments and Meteoroligists
Climate and Weather
Clouds and Water Cycle
Extreme Weather and Effects on People
Greenhouse Effect
100
A person who predicts the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
100
Weather is what the atmosphere's temperature, humidity, precipitation, wind is like over a short period of time. Climate is the average weather over a long period of time in an area.
What is the difference between climate and weather?
100
Evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection.
What is the stages of the water cycle?
100
This can be so bad that people lose their homes.
What affect does extreme weather have on people?
100
The atmosphere.
What is the Earth's blanket?
200
This instruments measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
200
This is the name for water turning to a gas and rising.
What is evaporation?
200
A white feathery cloud that means fair weather.
What is a cirrus cloud?
200
Stay inside and away from windows.
How does a lightening storm effect people?
200
When gases trap heat inside the atmosphere.
What is the greenhouse effect?
300
This instrument shows the way the wind is blowing.
What is a wind vane?
300
Humidity is how much moisture the air can hold. Precipitation is when the air can hold no more and rains or snows.
What is the difference between humidity and precipitation?
300
Medium height cloud, puffy.
What is cumulus?
300
Go underground where there is no windows or sharp or heavy objects that can fly around and hurt you.
What do you do when there is a tornado?
300
Carbon dioxide.
What is the gas that makes the greenhouse gasses unbalanced and hold more heat.
400
This instrument measures rainfall.
What is a rain gauge?
400
Desert climate.
What is the climate that has mainly sun?
400
Wide blanket of cloud, white or grey.
What is a status cloud?
400
This creates extreme weather.
What is one effect of global warming?
400
It keeps the Earth warm enough so that plants, animals and humans can live.
How is the greenhouse effect helpful?
500
An instrument that measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
500
This type of air pressure brings good weather.
What is high pressure?
500
Big dark clouds piled up, brings stormy weather.
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
500
Move immediately away from the shore and find a land higher up for safely.
What is something people should do if a hurricane, tsunami, or underground earthquake at the ocean?
500
This causes glaciers melt, floods, droughts, extreme storms
What is the danger of the Earth getting too warm from global warming?