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Terminology 2
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What is a tool that measures the air temperature.
What is a Thermometer
100
when the sun heats up water in rivers or lakes or the ocean and turns it into vapor or steam. The water vapor or steam leaves the river, lake or ocean and goes into the air.
What is Evaporation
100
are the shaking, rolling or sudden shock of the earth’s surface
What is an earthquake
100
the study of the atmosphere and all its phenomena, including weather and how to forecast it.
What is Meterorology
100
describes the condition of the air at a particular time and place.
What is weather
200
a tool that measures the amount of rain that has fallen over a specific time period
What is a rain gauge
200
Collection
What is it called when water falls back to earth as precipitation, it may fall back in the oceans, lakes or rivers or it may end up on land. When it ends up on land, it will either soak into the earth and become part of the “ground water” that plants and animals use to drink or it may run over the soil and collect in the oceans, lakes or rivers where the cycle starts
200
a violent rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground.
What is a tornado
200
a scientist who studies and predicts the weather.
What is a meteorologist
200
a storm produced by a cumulonimbus cloud and always has lightning and thunder.
What is a thunderstorm
300
a navigational instrument for finding directions.
What is a compass
300
Water Cycle
What is it called when water keeps going around and around and around and around
300
a huge storm that can be up to 600 miles across and have strong winds spiraling inward and upward at speeds of 75 to 200 mph.
What is a hurricane
300
light rain consisting of water droplets that are very small.
What is drizzle
300
The portion of the United States where tornadoes occur most frequently.
What is Tornado Alley
400
a tool that measures weather conditions higher up in the atmosphere.
What is a weather balloon
400
Water vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into liquid, forming clouds.
What is Condensation
400
a bright flash of electricity produced by a thunderstorm.
What is lightning
400
a forecast issued by the National Weather Service to highlight conditions that require caution, but are not thought to be immediately life threatening.
What is an advisory
400
visible air pollution in urban areas.
What is smog
500
a tool that measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer
500
occurs when so much water has condensed that the air cannot hold it anymore. The clouds get heavy and water falls back to the earth in the form of rain, hail, sleet or snow.
What is Precipitation
500
a mountain that opens downward to a pool of molten rock below the surface of the earth.
What is a volcano.
500
A calendar that uses astronomical information and weather data. Almanacs list tide data, give the positions of the stars and forecast weather each day.
What is an almanac
500
a notice issued for winter weather situations that could lead into hazardous conditions.
What is winter weather advisory