Weather Objects
MISC
CLOUDS
BRRRRRR
Extreme Weather!
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The name of this object
What is a weather vane?
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The condition of the atmosphere at any given time/place.
What is weather?
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Which colour are clouds before a tornado?
Green
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What is the coldest place in North America?
- Montreal
- Toronto
- Yukon
- Chicago
Yukon
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The Enhanced Fujita scale is used to measure the severity of what natural disaster?
Blizzard
Typhoon
Earthquake
Tornado
Tornado
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The name of this object
What is a barometer?
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A person who forecasts weather.
What is a meteorologist?
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Water released from clouds in the form of rain, sleet, snow, or hail.
Condensation
Evaporation
Sublimation
Precipitation
What is precipitation?
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What is a fear of snow called?
Ancraophobia
Ombrophobia
Chionophobia
Thermophobia
Chionophobia
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A tropical storm in the region of the Indian or western Pacific oceans.
Typhoon
Monsoon
Hurricane
Tsunami
What is a typhoon?
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Name of this object
What is an anemometer?
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This device measures humidity.
What is a hygrometer?
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These clouds are flat and featureless, appearing as layered sheets.
Cirrus
Stratus
Cumulus
Cumulonimbus
Stratus clouds.
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This country is home to Oymyakon, the coldest place in the northern hemisphere.
Canada
Russia
USA
Mongolia
What is Russia?
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The strong winds caused by high pressure over the Mohave Desert in California.
San Diego winds
La Nina
Santa Ana winds
Pacifica winds
What are the Santa Ana winds?
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Name of this object
What is a thermometer?
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The boundary between two air masses is...
A front
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What type of cloud, also called a thunderhead, produces rain, thunder, and lightning?
Cirrus
Stratus
Cumulus
Cumulonimbus
Cumulonimbus
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In which country was the Great Blizzard of 1888?
- UK
- USA
- Iran
- Norway
USA
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At what wind speed does a tropical storm become a hurricane?
74mph
86mph
98mph
110mph
74 mph
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Name of this object
What is a rain gauge?
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This measurement scale is used to determine wind speed.
Beaufort scale
Richter scale
Synoptic scale
Gusting scale
What is the Beaufort Scale?
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These clouds are made up of ice and look like white filaments in the sky.
a) Stratocumulus
b) Altostratus
c) Stratus
d) Cirrus
Cirrus
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TRUE or FALSE. It has never snowed in Miami.
FALSE! It has snowed once.
January 19, 1977 there was a brief flurry of snow in Miami.
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This natural disaster originating in the ocean is caused by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions or other explosions.
Hurricane
Tsunami
Tornado
Cyclone
What is a tsunami?