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Air
Clouds
Severe Weather
Raging Planet
Grab Bag
100
Air is this form of matter.
What is a gas.
100
Clouds are made up of this.
What is water vapour/ice crystals
100
Severe thunderstorms produce this phenomena that is hotter than the surface of the sun.
What is lightning
100
The most common place to die in a flood is here.
What is in a car
100
Name 3 forms of precipitation
What is rain, snow, sleet, hail
200
Name one of the main gases that makes up air.
What is Oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen.
200
Clouds are the source of falling material referred to as what?
What is precipitation.
200
Hurricanes only form in this part of the world.
What is over oceans
200
These kinds of severe weather occur in the United States in a place that bears its name.
What is Tornado Alley
200
This advanced technology is used to track precipitation and other kinds of weather.,
What is radar
300
When you heat up air it causes it to do this.
What is expand.
300
These types of clouds are wispy and thin, and form very high up in the sky.
What is cirrus clouds
300
The calmest part of a hurricane is called this.
What is the eye.
300
The colour of a tornado is determined by what?
What is the material it is picking up.
300
Hot air balloons rise for this reason.
What is hot air moves faster and further apart, which causes it to rise.
400
The blanket of air around the Earth is called this.
What is the atmosphere.
400
These types of clouds appear puffy, and full, like cotton candy.
What are cumulus clouds.
400
Floods occur because the ground becomes what?
What is saturated/full of water.
400
Hurricanes generate enough power to do this.
What is run the entire USA for a year.
400
This is the coldest recorded temperature on Earth.
What is -89.2C
500
Changes in air pressure cause the phenomena.
What is wind
500
Stratus clouds are called this when they are close to the ground.
What is fog
500
This is when there is no precipitation for long periods of time.
What is drought
500
Name 3 severe weather types that can occur in Saskatchewan.
What is tornado, flood, drought, blizzard, thunderstorms
500
This amount of water is all that is required to sweep you off your feet in a flood.
What is 6 inches