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Weather
Stack #182789 Granger
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is an air mass? | A large area of moving air that has the same temperature and humidity throughout it. |
| What is accumulation? | Water that collects in the form of ponds, streams, puddles, etc. after runoff. |
| What is an anemometer? | A weather instrument that measures the speed of the wind in mph or in kph. |
| What is a barometer? | A tool that measures the pressure of the air in inches or in millibars. |
| What are cirrus clouds? | High, thin clouds that look like eyelashes and that are made of ice crystals. They do not produce rain. |
| What is a climate? | A description of the typical weather found in a certain area. |
| How does a cloud form? | When water vapor rises in the air, it cools and changes from a vapor to a liquid in tiny droplets (water condenses). |
| What part of the water cycle is a cloud? | Condensation |
| What does water do when it condenses? | It changes from a vapor to a liquid. |
| What are cumulonimbus clouds? | Large, puffy clouds that produce rain. |
| What are cumulus clouds? | Puffy, lumpy clouds that are in the middle altitudes of the sky. |
| What is evaporation? | The process of water changing from a liquid to a gas. |
| What is a forecast? | A prediction of weather conditions (based on qualitative and quantitative observations/data). |
| What is a front? | An area where two different types of air masses meet. |
| What is ground water? | Water that flows underneath the Earth's surface and flows underground. |
| What is humidity? | Water vapor in the sky/air. |
| Describe a hurricane. | A very wide swirling storm that formed from a tropical storm over warm ocean waters. It can cause flooding, erosion of the coast line, damage due to winds. It moves forward slowly but has fast winds (even tornadoes) inside of it. |
| What makes a hurricane lose its strength? | Moving over land or over cool water. |
| What do meteoroligists do? | Study Earth's weather and atmosphere. |
| What is a natural disaster? | An event from nature that causes damage to life, land, buildings, etc. |
| What are nimbostratus clouds? | Flat clouds that stretch across the sky at low altitudes that produce rain. |
| What does the NOAA do? | It is an association that gives out weather warnings, tells of weather observations, makes forecasts, supplies weather safety information, etc. |
| What is precipitation? | Rain, hail, sleet, snow - any form of water that falls from clouds. |
| What is a rain gauge? | A weather instrument that collects and measures rainfall. |
| How do you measure the amount of snowfall? | With a ruler, yardstick, or meter stick. |
| What is runoff? | Part of the water cycle that's after precipitation. It is when water flows downhill because of gravity. After runoff comes accumulation in the water cycle. |
| What are stratus clouds? | Low-level flat, stread out clouds. |
| What is fog? | A stratus cloud that touches ground or that's right above the ground. |
| How is temperature measured? | Using a weather tool called a thermometer - in degrees Celsius or in degrees Fahrenheit. |
| What are thunderstorms? | Severe storms with lightning, thunder, heavy rain, strong winds. They can cause flooding and hail may fall. |
| What is a tornado? | A small funnel-shaped cloud that comes down out of a storm cloud. It has extremely fast winds and can cause much damage to things in its path. It does not last long. Weather instruments are not used to determine their wind speed. |
| What is transpiration? | Water that escapes from (sort of evaporates from) the stomata (pores) of the leaves on plants. |
| What is the water cycle? | The change of Earth's water from one form to another as it goes from Earth to the atmosphere and back again. |
| What is weather? | Conditions of the lower layers of Earth's atmosphere. |
| What layer of the atmosphere occur in? | The troposphere - the lowest layer of the atmosphere. |
| What is a wind vane? | A weather tool that shows the direction that wind is blowing FROM. |
| What does a wind sock do? | Shows the general direction that wind is blowing and shows a general speed of the wind. |
| What is a hygrometer? | A weather instrument that detects the amount of water vapor (humidity) in the air. |
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