Weather Jeopardy

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Weather Jeopardy
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Tools
Water Cycle
Clouds
Severe Weather
Vocabulary
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• What tool would help you measure the temperature
  of water in a pond?

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• a thermometer

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• You would use this to measure air pressure.

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• barometer

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• We used this tool to measure the amount of rain.

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• a rain gauge

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• Instrument that measures wind speed.

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• anemometer

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• This tool tells us what direction the wind is
  coming from.

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• a wind vane

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• Use the motions to demonstrate the water cycle.

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• Condensation, precipitation,
• run-off, evaporation

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• During this stage water droplets get heavy,
  large, and cold. They fall to the Earth.

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• What is precipitation?

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• During what stage does water try to get to the
  ocean by streams and underground?

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• run-off

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• During this stage liquid water heats up and
  becomes water vapor.

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• What is evaporation?

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• During what stage does water vapor cool and form
  small water droplets in the clouds?

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• Condensation

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• What are fluffy clouds with flat bottoms that
  look like cotton balls called?

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• cumulus clouds

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• Name the three main clouds we studied.

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• cirrus, cumulus, and stratus

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• These clouds often bring thunderstoms.

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• What are cumulonimbus?

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• These clouds are thin, feathery, and high in the
  sky.

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• What are cirrus clouds?

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• These clouds are heavy, low to the ground, and
  thick like a blanket.

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• What are stratus clouds?

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• What happens during a tornado?

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• A funnel shaped cloud follows a thunderstorm. It
  has high winds, hail, and rain. The high winds
  can pick things up and destroy homes.

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• What does a hurricane need to form?

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• Warm ocean water

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• What is the difference between a watch and a
  warning?

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• Watch severe weather is possible/can happen
• Warning severe weather is happening near you

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• What should you do in severe weather?

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• Stay inside, get to a low spot, cover your head,
  listen for warnings, be prepared

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• How do meteorologists forecast weather?

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• They use technology like Doppler Radar,
  satellites, computers, maps, weather
  balloons/planes.

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• This word means to predict the weather.

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• What is forecast?

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• This is a scientist who studies weather.

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• What is a meteorologist?

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• This word, when added to a cloud, means rain

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• What is nimbus?

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• Weather that happens suddenly and can be
  dangerous.

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• What is severe weather?

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• Large balls of precipitation that are frozen
  again and again as they are pushed back into the
  clouds.

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• What is hail?