Show:
Weather
Fronts
Meteorological tools
Tides
Moon
100
This is how water travels around the world.
What is the water cycle?
100
What does the symbol of a blue line with triangles on only one side mean.
What is a cold front?
100
If you wanted to measure how much rain fell you would use what tool?
What is a rain gauge?
100
The up-and-down movement of water particles.
What is a wave?
100
The moon phase when the moon is absent from the sky or completely dark.
What is a New Moon.
200
Rain, sleet, snow, and hail are all examples of this.
What is precipitation.
200
What does the symbol of a red line with half circles on only one side represent?
What is a warm front?
200
This tool is used to help translate the direction that the wind is blowing.
What is a wind vane?
200
The daily change in the local water level of the ocean.
What are tides.
200
The moon has eight.
How many phases does the moon have?
300
Air in motion produced by the uneven heating of the earth’s surface by the sun.
What is wind.
300
When a cold front is moving in, where are the colder temperatures located.
What is behind the cold front.
300
This tool is useful for measuring the speed or strength of the wind.
What is an anemometer?
300
This object has a direct impact on Earth's tides.
What is the moon?
300
about 29 days.
How long is a complete rotation of the moon?
400
The process by which gas changes to liquid. (example, when fog forms/occurs)
What is condensation.
400
The weight of air pushing on everything around it.
What is air pressure?
400
This tool measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
400
The world's largest ocean.
What is the Pacific.
400
A natural object that orbits a planet.
What is a moon?
500
This is the layer of the atmosphere where all weather happens.
What is the troposphere?
500
The border where two air masses meet.
What is a front?
500
This measures the amount of water vapor in the air, Humidity.
What does a hygrometer measure? (Humidity)
500
New Moon and Full Moon.
What phases of the moon help cause spring tides?
500
Two times a month the moon looks like a half circle are these phases.
What are the first quarter and last quarter?