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This tool is used to measure how much rain has fallen.
What is a rain gauge?
100
This is moving air.
What is wind?
100
This is the average of weather conditions over a long period of time (about 30 years).
What is climate?
100
This is a moving electrical spark.
What is lightning?
100
This makes cold temperatures feel even colder.
What is wind chill?
200
This tool is used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
200
This is a boundary between two air masses.
What is a front?
200
This type of weather is brought from high pressure systems.
What is clear and calm weather?
200
Of the two, tornadoes and hurricanes, this one is more destructive.
What is a hurricane?
200
This is the height at which wind chill is measured, or where people stand.
What is five feet?
300
The weather man tells you that the weather is going to turn stormy and cloudy, so you know this type of pressure system is coming in.
What is low pressure?
300
This is a large body of air with similar properties or a large "pocket" of air.
What is an air mass?
300
This is the difference between climate and weather.
What is climate is what you expect and weather is what you get?
300
These are the three reasons a hurricane is more destructive than a tornado.
What is it lasts longer, is bigger, and can cause huge waves?
300
This is the shape of the earth's orbit.
What is a circle that has been squeezed, or an oval?
400
These are the five types of weather you can find on a weather map.
What are fronts, air pressure, precipitation, clouds, and temperature?
400
This is the weight of the air pressing down on us and everything around us.
What is air pressure?
400
These tow things affect climate.
What are mountain ranges and ocean currents?
400
These are four examples of severe weather.
What are thunderstorms, tornadoes, blizzards, and hurricanes?
400
This is the reason we have seasons.
What is the Earth is tilted?
500
This tool is used to measure wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
500
This is when a cold or warm front stays in one place.
What is a stationary front?
500
Climate includes these three things.
What are average amount of precipitation, average temperature, and how much temperature changes?
500
This is the reason you can not have thunder without lightning.
What is the lightning heats up the air quickly causing thunder?
500
This is the reason why it is coldest in the Winter, even though we are closest to the sun at this time.
What is we are tilted away from the sun.