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How does weather battle?
Measuring Weather
Worst Weather US
All Terms Weather
Are You Weather Smart?
100
When a cold air mass takes over a warm air mass
What is a cold front?
100
This instrument is used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100
A tropical storm that has winds of about 119 kilometers per hour or higher
What is a Hurricane?
100
The amount of water vapor in a given volume of air.
What is humidity?
100
If you are caught in a tornado where is the safest place to be?
What is a basement?
200
This type of front is an indication that a storm is over.
What is an occluded front.
200
This instrument measures air pressure. You made one in class.
What is a barometer?
200
A rapidly whirling funnel shaped cloud that reaches down to touch Earth's surface.
What is a tornado?
200
Any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches Earth's surface.
What is precipitation?
200
During a lightning storm where should you find shelter?
What is a vehicle, in doors.
300
When a cold air mass and warm air mass meet together but neither advances on the other.
What is a stationary front?
300
The faster the wind blows the faster this machine turns.
What is an anemometer?
300
This is caused when electrical charges jump between parts of a cloud, between nearby clouds, or between a cloud and the ground.
What is lightening?
300
The measurement of how cold or hot an object is.
What is temperature?
300
What primary states can we find tornado alley in?
What is Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas?
400
This front produces the worst weather, thunderstorms, tornadoes and hurricanes
What is a cold front?
400
This type of system, measured with a barometer, indicates fair skies.
What is a high pressure system?
400
A small storm accompanied by heavy precipitation can cause this
What is flash flood?
400
A measure of cooling combing temperature and wind speed. (happens a lot in Idaho).
What is wind chill?
400
What are three things your family can do to be prepared for an evacuation?
Have a 72 hour kit, communication plan, specific meeting place.
500
When a warm air mass is trapped between two cold air masses.
What is an occiuded front?
500
This type of system, measured with a barometer, indicates a storm is coming.
What is a low pressure system?
500
A dome of water that sweeps across the coast where a hurricane lands.
What is a storm surge?
500
What is the difference between climate and weather?
climate is the average year to year conditions of temperature, precipitation, winds and clouds in an area, weather is the condition of Earth's atmosphere at a given place and time.
500
Name four types of Severe Weather and where they are most likely to occur.
Tornado - tornado alley, midwest Hurricane - gulf coast east coast of US Flash flood - southern utah, Rexburg Winter Storm - Pacific Northwest, North Eastern States, Canada and Alaska Thunderstorm - Anywhere throughout the United States.