Transcript MATH_files/Jeopardy Measuring Weather

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Host...
Name the
Weather
Tool
Get your
head out of
the clouds.
Know what
it means.
Weather
Report
Pressure
Is On
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Weather
Or not?
This is a tool that measures
the temperature of the air
around it.
A 100
What is a thermometer?
A 100
This tool measures the
amount of pressure the air is
pressing down upon the
Earth. There is more than
one kind.
A 200
What is a barometer?
A 200
There a two tools that show
which direction the wind is
blowing. Both contain the
word that is shows the
direction of.
A 300
Wind Vane and Wind Sock.
A 300
The anemometer measures
the ________ of wind.
A 400
What is wind speed.
A 400
______________ constantly
sends images of weather
conditions on Earth
A 500
What are satellites?
A 500
This cloud holds as much
moisture as possible without
raining.
B 100
What is fog?
B 100
Stratus, Cumulus, and Cirrus
are types of _______.
B 200
What are clouds?
B 200
These clouds are formed high
in the sky when the weather
is very cold. They look like
thin threads or feathers
arranged in bands.
B 300
What are cirrus clouds?
B 300
These clouds are often see
around midday or in the
afternoon. They form as
warm, moist air that moves
high into the sky.
B 400
What are cumulus clouds?
B 400
Stratus clouds are clouds that
form flat, ______ layers.
B 500
What is flat and wide layers?
B 500
A hygrometer measures
_______.
C 100
What is airpressure?
C 100
Name the large body of air
that has about the same
temperature and humidity.
C 200
What is air mass?
C 200
Name the agency run by the
government that collects
information about weather.
C 300
What is the National Weather
Service?
C 300
DAILY
Place A Wager
DOUBLE
C 400
Name the area where cool air
sinks and pushes down on the
Earth’s surface. High or Low
pressure area?
C 400
What is a high pressure area?
C 400
Name the type of weather that
is caused by the rising of
warm and the sinking of cool
air.
C 500
What is wind?
C 500
Three of precipitation are
_____, ________, and
________.
D 100
What is rain, snow, and hale?
D 100
Name the weather that will
happen in the next couple of
days if warm air slides
upward over a cold air mass.
A quick rain storm or rain and
snow that may last several
days.
D 200
What is snow that may last
several days.
D 200
Name the person who studies
the weather.
D 300
Who is a meteorologist?
D 300
Name the computer generated
map that a meteorologist uses
to track the weather.
D 400
What is a radar map?
D 400
Name a local meteorologist.
D 500
Who is Doppler Dave Oliver,
Shel Winkley, Allen Gwyn,
Steve Kersh, and John Harris.
D 500
Name the thing a barometer
measures.
E 100
What is air pressure?
E 100
A high pressure area is a
place where cool air sinks and
pushes down on the surface
with more pressure. True or
False?
E 200
What is true?
E 200
Air pressure can not make
your ears pop when you
swallow. True or False?
E 300
What is false?
E 300
What is air pressure measured
in?
E 400
What is milibars?
E 400
Why is air pressure lower as
you go high above the earth?
E 500
What is air pressure decreases
with altitude?
E 500
Name the line where two air
masses meet.
F 100
What is a front?
F 100
This is what happens when
water droplets freeze over
and over in clouds and then
falls to the Earth as frozen
percipitation.
F 200
What is hail?
F 200
A funnel cloud over land with
very destructive winds.
F 300
What is a tornado?
F 300
A winter storm warns people
of a ___________.
F 400
What is a blizzard?
F 400
This kind of front happens when
a warm air mass slides slowly
over the top of a cold air mass.
Cold front or Warm front?
F 500
What is a warm front?
F 500
The Final Jeopardy Category is:
Please record your wager.
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Do air masses move east to west
or west to east in the United
States?
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What is from west to east?
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