How does weather change?
Why do we measure weather?
What is the Water Cycle?
Weather Problems
Extreme Storms
100
A time of year that has a certain kind of weather.
What is season?
100
A tool used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100
Provides heat to dry rain puddles.
What is the sun?
100
This can happen when a lot of rain falls in a short amount of time.
What is a flood?
100
Storm that forms from a funnel cloud.
What is a tornado?
200
In this season thunderstorms can quickly change the weather.
What is Summer?
200
How warm or cool something is.
What is temperature?
200
The gas form of water.
What is water vapor?
200
Part of a thunderstorm that is electricity.
What is lightning?
200
A whirling, twirling wind and rainstorm.
What is a hurricane?
300
In this season photosynthesis of plants stops and plants begin to die.
What is Fall?
300
Vanes and anemometers measure this aspect of weather.
What is wind?
300
The suns heat changes water to a gas through this process.
What is evaporation?
300
This can occur when it does not rain for a long time.
What is a drought?
300
Another name for a tornado.
What is a twister?
400
In this season the air gets warmer and it is rainy.
What is Spring?
400
Used to measure precipitation.
What is a gauge?
400
This is the term for when water in the form of a gas cools and changes to tiny drops of water.
What is condensation?
400
A storm with blowing snow.
What is a blizzard?
400
The name of a skinny tornado.
What is a rope tornado?
500
A change in weather that repeats.
What is a weather pattern?
500
4 forms of precipitation.
What is rain, snow, sleet, and hail?
500
Water droplets and dust particles form this.
What is a cloud?
500
The reason we see lightning before we hear thunder.
What is light travels faster than sound?
500
The name of a tornado that can happen in a desert.
What is a dust devil?