Read the sentences below. Click on the highlighted words to answer the questions. Fill in the answers on your answer sheet.
1. How do clouds form?
2. Where are hurricanes born?
3. What are the two main parts of a hurricane ?
4. What is humidity?
5. How does lightning help nature?
6. What is dry lightning?
7. Check out some pictures of lightning.
8. How many sides does each snowflake have?
9. What 3 ingredients are needed to for a snowflake to form?
10. From what kind of cloud can a tornado be formed?
11. What is the weather like in London, England today?
12. Name five kinds of Precipitation.
13. How many times a day does lightning hit Earth?
14. How fast does the wind blow in a hurricane?
15. Which country has the most tornadoes?
16. What is the difference between sleet and freezing rain?
17. What happens if nimbo appears at the beginning of a cloud name or nimbus appears at the end?
18. What is the difference between climate and weather?
19. What is the blanket of air that surrounds the earth called?
20. Which instrument is used to measure
air pressure ________________________
temperature _______________________
wind speed _________________________
21. What is the major influence governing the climate of a region?
22. What does the word "Cirrus" mean?
23. Are cirrus clouds low or high?
24. What are the large clouds that sometimes look like huge puffs of cotton?
25. What root word tells us that a cloud brings rain?
26. Which type of cloud usually covers the whole sky and brings gray days?
27. What is fog?
28. When does fog form?
29. What are the basic ingredients of weather (there are 4) AND where does our weather originate?
30. What causes temperature changes?
31.
What is the jet stream and
is it faster or slower in the winter?
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