The weather instrument used to measure how hot or cold the air is.
What is a thermometer?
100
A weather event defined by strong winds and heavy snow
What is a blizzard?
200
Most weather happens in this layer of the atmosphere
What is the troposphere?
200
The scientific study of Earth's weather
What is meteorology?
200
The second most abundant gas that makes up our air
What is Oxygen?
200
North, South, East, and West are the units for this weather variable
What is a wind direction?
200
35, 53, 153, 135 - the average number of tornadoes that touch down each year in Colorado
What is 53?
300
This highest mountain in the world reaches more than half way through the troposphere
What is Mt. Everest?
300
A prediction about what kind of weather to expect
What is a forecast?
300
The push when compressed air pushes back
What is pressure?
300
The anemometer is used to measure this weather variable
What is wind speed?
300
The name of a rotating column of air that does not reach the ground
What is a funnel cloud?
400
Also the name of a hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, this is the layer right above the Troposphere
What is the Stratosphere?
400
The condition of the atmosphere at a given time and place.
What is weather?
400
The percentage of Nitrogen that makes up our air
What is 78%?
400
The weather instrument used to measure humidity
What is a hygrometer?
400
The name given to the significant weather activity linked to sea temperature rise in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of South America, that is affecting our weather
What is El Nino?
500
Atmospheric pressure is measured by this weather instrument starting with the letter 'B'
What is a barometer?
500
Any weather factor that can change
What is a weather variable?
500
These are too small to see and make up our air
What are particles?
500
One of two units that wind speed is measured in
What is mph/kph?
500
Arapahoe, Adams, Weld, Denver - the county in Colorado, that on average, receives the most tornado warnings in the entire world!