With your hosts: Ms. Moreno & Mr. Carbonell Science Chapter 8 With your hosts: Ms. Moreno & Mr. Carbonell
Category 1 Category 2 Category 3 Category 4 Category 5 100 200 300 400 500
An instrument used to measure rainfall is called a Category 1 - 100 An instrument used to measure rainfall is called a
Category 1– 100 Rain Gauge
Category 1- 200 Differences in _____________ cause winds.
Category 1- 200 Air Pressure
Category 1 - 300 Name the three main types of clouds.
Cirrus, cumulus, stratus Category 1-300 Cirrus, cumulus, stratus
Category 1- 400 Maritime air masses form over …
Category 1- 400 Water
Category 1- 500 What does a psychrometer measure?
Category 1– 500 Relative Humidity
Category 2- 100 The center of a hurricane is called the…
Category 2– 100 Eye
Category 2- 200 Cyclones are centers of _____ pressure. CHECK
Category 2– 200 Low
Category 2- 300 Tornadoes form in ___________ clouds.
Category 2– 300 Cumulonimbus
Category 2- 400 Hailstones form only in … clouds.
Category 2 – 400 cumulonimbus
Category 2 - 500 Hail forms in _________ time while sleet forms in ____________ time.
Category 2 – 500 Hail: summer Sleet : winter
Category 3 - 100 A front is the boundary where air masses …
Category 3 – 100 Meet/Collide
Category 3 - 200 Snow falls when humid air cools below _______ degrees Celsius.
Category 3 – 200 Zero
Category 3 - 300 A hurricane is a tropical cyclone that forms over _________ ocean water.
Category 3– 300 warm
Category 3 - 400 You will have to move the Daily Double picture out of the way to write the question. If you do not wish to have the Daily Double in the game, delete it and the sound clip (speaker) from this slide. For a Daily Double, the contestant has to wager at least $5 and at most the highest point value of any player/team at that point in the game. It is considered a True Daily Double if they wager all of their points and go “double or nothing”. __________ is the measure of the amount of water vapor in the air.
Category 3 – 400 Humidity
Category 3- 500 ___________ front are where cold and warm air masses meet, but neither can move.
Category 3– 500 Stationary
Category 4- 100 An __________ is a huge body of air that has the same temperature, humidity, and air pressure.
Category 4 – 100 Air Mass
Category 4- 200 The most common type of precipitation is…
Category 4 – 200 Rain
Category 4- 300 A continental air mass forms over …
Category 4– 300 Land
Category 4- 400 A high-pressure center of dry air is an …
Category 4– 400 Anti-cyclone
Category 4- 500 Weather patterns on the Great Plains result in …
Category 4 – 500 Tornado Alley
Category 5- 100 Bands of high-speed winds above Earth’s surface are called …
Category 5– 100 Jet Stream
Category 5-200 Meteorologists can accurately predict the weather a month in advance. (true or false)
Category 5– 200 False.
Category 5- 300 The storms that produce the highest winds are …
Category 5 – 300 Tornadoes
Category 5 - 400 Lines on a weather map that join places the same air pressure are …
Category 5 – 400 Isobar
Category 5 - 500 Which type of clouds are made mostly of ice crystals?
Category 5 – 500 Cirrus
FINAL JEOPARDY CATEGORY: Storms
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