Weather Jeopardy

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Weather Jeopardy
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Vocabulary True? or False? Air Masses Fronts Storms
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FINAL JEPORADY
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Vocabulary 100
What is Lightning?
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Is a sudden spark in the atmosphere. Lighting can
cause an explosion of air. Thunder is the sound
of the explosion.
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Vocabulary 200
What is a Thunderstorm?
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Is a small storm that often has heavy
precipitation, thunder and Lightning.
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Vocabulary 300
What is a Storm?
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Is a violent disturbance in the atmosphere. Storm
include, thunderstorms, Tornadoes, Hurricanes and
Winter Storms
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Vocabulary 400
What is a Cyclone?
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Is a swirling center of low air pressure. The
winds in a cyclone spiral around a center. In a
cyclone winds spiral inward towards the low
pressure center.
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Vocabulary 500
What is an Anticyclone??
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Is a high-pressure center of dry air. Is the
opposite of a cyclone. In an anticyclone, winds
spiral outward away from the high-pressure
center.
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True? or False? 100
A Tornado Watch is a Tornado has been spotted
take cover immediately!
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FALSE, A Tornado watch is, a Tornado is possible
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True? or False? 200
A Hurricane forms over Warm Ocean water?
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True
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True? or False? 300
During A thunderstorm you should be outside in
the pool?
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FALSE!!
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True? or False? 400
Air spins upward in a Cyclone?
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TRUE!
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Make a Wager!
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True? or False? 500
Tornadoes are common in the Great Plans also know
as Tornado Alley name 3 of the 5 sates
associated with the Tornado Alley?
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Air Masses 100
What is an air mass?
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Huge Body of air that has similar temperature,
humidity and air pressure.
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Air Masses 200
What do occluded air masses bring?
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Clouds and Precipitation
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Air Masses 300
What do air masses influence?
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Weather
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Air Masses 400
How are air masses commonly moved?
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The prevailing westerlies and jet streams
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Air Masses 500
What are the 3 of the 4 types of air masses?
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Maritime Tropical, Continental Tropical,
Maritime Polar and Continental Polar.
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Fronts 100
How does a Warm front occur?
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When a warm air mass moves over a cold air mass.
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Fronts 200
What type of front forms Thunderstorms?
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Cold Front
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Fronts 300
How does a Cold front form?
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When a cold air mass slides under a warm air
mass.
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Fronts 400
How does a Occluded front form?
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A warm air mass sometimes is caught between two
cooler air masses. This form the Occluded front.
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Fronts 500
Sometimes cold and warm air masses meet, but
neither air mass moves over or under the other.
The two air masses face each other in a
Standoff What type of front is this called?
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Stationary Front
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Storms 100
What does Evacuate mean?
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To move away form an area
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Storms 200
During a Tornado you should be in a Basement or a
Storm Shelter. What if you dont have either of
them were do you go?
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The middle part of the lowest level of your home
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Storms 300
The center part of a Hurricane is called the?
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The Eye
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Storms 400
Tornadoes most commonly develop in what type of
clouds?
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Thick Cumulonimbus
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Storms 500
In the Warmer months, the snow that falls form
clouds melts and then hits the Earths surface
as??
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RAIN!
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Make your wagers
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A a)_______ is a b) _______ cyclone. A cyclone
has a low c) _______. A hurricane has winds that
are at least 119 kilometer per d) _____.
Hurricanes form in the e) _______ Pacific and
Indian oceans.
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a) Hurricane b) Tropical c) Pressure d) Hour e)
Atlantic
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