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Air and Wind
Clouds
Severe Weather
Predicting Weather
The Sun
100
When the air moves from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure it creates this.
What is wind?
100
These two things make clouds.
What is water droplets and ice crystals?
100
This type of severe weather is a swirling tube of wind.
What is a tornado?
100
A hot air balloon type of thing that carries equipment to measure different weather aspects.
What is a weather balloon?
100
How did First Nations and Metis people view the Sun?
A gift from the Creator.
200
Low pressure is consisted of this type of air.
What is cool air?
200
These types of clouds are way high up in the sky.
What are cirrus clouds?
200
This happens when an area has received little rain over a long period of time.
What is a drought?
200
This type of equipment sends radio waves into the air from an antenna.
What is a radar?
200
This happens on the Sun to create energy in the form of light and heat.
What are explosions of gases?
300
Air rises when this happens.
What is the air heating up?
300
These clouds often cover the entire sky and produce precipitation.
What are stratus clouds?
300
You gather warm clothes, heat sources, food, water, medical supplies, and phones/chargers to prepare for this type of severe weather.
What is a blizzard?
300
This piece of equipment takes pictures of the Earth and storm systems.
What is a satellite?
300
The blanket of air that surrounds the Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
400
This type of shelter was used by the First Nations and Metis people to protect them from the wind.
What is a tipi?
400
These types of clouds are puffy and closer to the ground.
What are cumulus clouds?
400
Wear sun screen, hats, and sunglasses to protect yourself against this.
What are UV Rays.
400
How did an Aspen Tree help First Nations and Metis people predict the weather?
The leaves shook and turned over.
400
The Sun is made of these.
What are hot gases that are constantly exploding.
500
Rock is one of four elements that First Nations and Metis people believed Mother Earth is composed of. What are the other three?
What are water, rock, and fire?
500
These types of clouds means that the air is unstable.
What are cumulus clouds?
500
Scenario: You are driving along a highway when, out of the blue, a tornado touches down close to your vehicle. What do you do?
Don't try to outrun it. Pull over and take shelter in a very low ditch, drainage ditch, deep culverts, any time of low place or hole in the ground.
500
How did First Nations and Metis people use Snowshoe Hares to predict weather?
When the Hares footprints were bigger than usual, it meant that they grew more hair, meaning winter was coming.
500
_______ changes how fast the ground warms up.
What is dispersion of sunlight?