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Weather Jeopardy

Weather Jeopardy. Chapter 12. Vocabulary. 1. Who is a person that studies weather?. Answer # 1. A meteorologist. Vocabulary. 2. What does a thermometer measure?. Answer # 2. temperature. Vocabulary. 3. What does a wind vane tell you?. Answer # 3. Wind direction. Vocabulary.

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Weather Jeopardy

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  1. Weather Jeopardy Chapter 12

  2. Vocabulary 1. Who is a person that studies weather?

  3. Answer # 1 • A meteorologist

  4. Vocabulary 2. What does a thermometer measure?

  5. Answer # 2 • temperature

  6. Vocabulary 3. What does a wind vane tell you?

  7. Answer # 3 • Wind direction

  8. Vocabulary 4. What does a rain gauge container collect?

  9. Answer #4 • water

  10. Vocabulary 5.What is humidity?

  11. Answer # 5 • Moisture in the air

  12. Vocabulary • 6. what does a barometer measure?

  13. Answer #6 • Air pressure

  14. Vocabulary 7. What is a place where two air masses meet?

  15. Answer # 7 • A front

  16. Vocabulary 8. What are large bodies of air that have similar pressure, temperature, and humidity called?

  17. Answer # 8 • An air mass

  18. Question 9. What has more moisture? Warm air or cold air?

  19. Answer # 9 • Warm air

  20. Question 10. If air had all of the water vapor it could possibly hold, how much would it have????

  21. Answer #10 • 100%

  22. Question 11. What does water fill when it evaporates?

  23. Answer #11 • Space between molecules in the air (or just, air)

  24. Question • 12. What is the device used to collect weather conditions in the atmosphere?

  25. Answer #12 • Weather Balloons

  26. Question • 13. What 3 things does a radar signal tell us?

  27. Answer #13 • How far away a storm is, where it is going, and how big it is.

  28. Question 14. In what year was the 1st weather satellite launched into space?

  29. Answer #14 • 1960

  30. Question 15. What 3 things do radiosondes measure?

  31. Answer #15 • Temperature, pressure, humidity

  32. Question 16. What does a “high” air mass have?

  33. Answer #16 • Cold, dry air

  34. Question 17. What does a “low” air mass have?

  35. Answer #17 • Warmer, rainy air

  36. Question 18. What are the two most common kind of air fronts?

  37. Answer # 18 • Cold and Warm

  38. Question 19. What 8 things can a weather map show?

  39. Answer #19 • You will be asked to name 3 of the following: wind direction, wind speed, clouds, air masses, fronts, temperature, precipitation

  40. Question 20. What does a weather WATCH tell you?

  41. Answer #20 • To be on the LOOKOUT for dangerous weather

  42. Question 21. What does a weather WARNING tell you?

  43. Answer #21 • To SEEK SHELTER from the dangerous weather

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