1. Weather Jeopardy

2. Tools
Water
Cycle
Clouds
Severe
Weather
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3. What tool would help you measure the temperature of water in a pond?
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What tool would help you measure the temperature of water in a pond?

4. Answer:
a thermometer

5. You would use this to measure air pressure.
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You would use this to measure air pressure.

6. Answer: 200
barometer

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

8. Answer:
a rain gauge

9. Instrument that measures wind speed.
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Instrument that measures wind speed.

10. Answer:
anemometer

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

12. Answer
a wind vane

13. Use the motions to demonstrate the water cycle.
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Use the motions to demonstrate the water cycle.

14. Condensation, precipitation, run-off, evaporation
Answer
Condensation, precipitation,
run-off, evaporation

15. 200
During this stage water droplets get heavy, large, and cold. They fall to the Earth.

16. Answer
What is precipitation?

17. 300
During what stage does water try to get to the ocean by streams and underground?

18. Answer
run-off

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

20. Answer
What is evaporation?

21. 500
During what stage does water vapor cool and form small water droplets in the clouds?

22. Answer
Condensation

23. 100
What are fluffy clouds with flat bottoms that look like cotton balls called?

24. Answer
cumulus clouds

25. Name the three main clouds we studied.
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Name the three main clouds we studied.

26. cirrus, cumulus, and stratus
Answer
cirrus, cumulus, and stratus

27. These clouds often bring thunderstoms.
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These clouds often bring thunderstoms.

28. Answer
What are cumulonimbus?

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

30. Answer
What are cirrus clouds?

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

32. What are stratus clouds?
Answer
What are stratus clouds?

33. What happens during a tornado?
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What happens during a tornado?

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

35. What does a hurricane need to form?
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What does a hurricane need to form?

36. Answer
Warm ocean water

37. What is the difference between a watch and a warning?
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What is the difference between a watch and a warning?

38. Answer Watch: severe weather is possible/can happen
Warning: severe weather is happening near you

39. What should you do in severe weather?
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What should you do in severe weather?

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

41. How do meteorologists forecast weather?
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How do meteorologists forecast weather?

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

43. This word means to predict the weather.
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This word means to predict the weather.

44. Answer
What is forecast?

45. This is a scientist who studies weather.
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This is a scientist who studies weather.

46. What is a meteorologist?
Answer
What is a meteorologist?

47. This word, when added to a cloud, means “rain”
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This word, when added to a cloud, means “rain”

48. Answer
What is nimbus?

49. Weather that happens suddenly and can be dangerous.
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Weather that happens suddenly and can be dangerous.

50. Answers
What is severe weather?

51. 500
Large balls of precipitation that are frozen again and again as they are pushed back into the clouds.

52. Answer
What is hail?