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What is a person who studies weather called?
Meteorologists
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What are the four kinds of precipitation?
rain, sleet, hail, and snow
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What are the three types of clouds that our notes talked about?
cumulus, cirrus, stratus
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Where are tornadoes most common?
In the midwest of the United States
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What is the natural disaster that is an overflow of water that covers a piece of land that is usually dry?
Flood
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What is the tool called that is used to measure a storm's wind speed?
Anemometer
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What form of precipitation is made of droplets of water?
Rain
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What type of cloud looks like flat sheets of clouds and could mean an overcast day or steady rain?
stratus
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What storm is a huge storm in the ocean that can get up to 600 miles long and 75 to 200 miles per hour?
Hurricanes
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What is it called when there is a lack of precipitation over an extended period of time?
Drought
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What is used by meteorologists to detect weather?
Radar
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What form of precipitation is solid and falls from the sky as ice pellets?
Hail
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What clouds are puffy and look like pieces of floating cotton?
cumulus
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Using your tornado scale on slide 48, what rating is a tornado that is 162 mph?
F3
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What is often in the spread of wildfires (look at brush fire)?
Wind
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What is the lowest level of the atmosphere called?
troposphere
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What form of precipitation is made of masses of tiny crystals?
Snow
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What clouds look like long, thin, wispy, white streamers in the sky and are so high up they are made of ice particles?
cirrus
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What storm is violent spirals of air that rotate when in contact with the earth's surface and clouds?
Tornado
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What will be first, lightning or thunder?
lightning
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What is it called when water falls from the sky in different forms?
precipitation
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What form of precipitation is made of solid grains of ice that are smaller than five millimeters in diameter?
Sleet
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What clouds may appear by themselves, in lines, or clusters?
cumulus
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Using your hurricane scale on slide 55, what category is a hurricane that is 100 mph?
2
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If lightning were 1 mile away, you would hear thunder 5 seconds later. If you were 2 miles away, you would hear thunder how many seconds later?
10 seconds






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