Geology

Question 1

What is an instrument used to observe air pressure?

Answer 1

Barometer

Question 2

What is the measure of the amount of energy in air molecules?

Answer 2

Temperature

Question 3

What are the scales used to measure temperature

Answer 3

Celsius, Fahrenheit, Kelvin, and Degree

Question 4

What are lines drawn on a map that show areas of the same temperature?

Answer 4

Isotherms

Question 5

What is it when something changes from a liquid to a gas?

Answer 5

Evaporation

Question 6

What is it when something changes from a gas to a solid on a cooler surface?

Answer 6

Condensation

Question 7

What is the amount of water vapor present in the air?

Answer 7

Specific Humidity

Question 8

What is it when the specific humidity equals the air capacity for holding water vapor?

Answer 8

Capacity

Question 9

What are instruments for measuring relative humidity?

Answer 9

Hydrometers

Question 10

What is high fog, mist, or haze?

Answer 10

Dew

Question 11

What type of clouds are thin feathery or tufted, above 7000 meters, and always made of ice crystals

Answer 11

Cirrus clouds

Question 12

What type of clouds are low sheets or cloud layers found at different altitudes?

Answer 12

Stratus clouds

Question 13

What type of clouds are piled in thick fluffy masses that are formed by vertical rising air currents?

Answer 13

Cumulus clouds

Question 14

What type of clouds are high clouds?

Answer 14

Alto clouds

Question 15

What type of clouds are rain clouds?

Answer 15

Nimbus clouds

Question 16

What type of clouds are thunderclouds?

Answer 16

Cumulonimbus clouds

Question 17

How do raindrops form?

Answer 17

1. Water-cloud process

2. Ice process

Question 18

List the forms of precipitation

Answer 18

Sleet, hail, and snow

Question 19

What are raindrops that fall through freezing rain that are always small pellets of ice?

Answer 19

Sleet

Question 20

What is formed in thunderstorms where they begin as frozen raindrops. The updraft pushes ice back into the clouds and another layer of ice is added until it is heavy and it falls

Answer 20

Hail

Question 21

What is it when water freezes and forms crystals then falls

Answer 21

Snow

Question 22

Why do baseballs fly farther at higher altitudes?

Answer 22

There are less air molecules

Question 23

What are formed where a high pressure system and a low pressure system meet. Warm humid air mixes with cooler drier air and forms clouds and possibly storms.

Answer 23

Fronts

Question 24

What direction does a low pressure system move?

Answer 24

Counterclockwise

Question 25

What direction does a high pressure system move?

Answer 25

Clockwork

Question 26

What kind of weather does a low pressure system produce?

Answer 26

Overcast/ rainy

Question 27

What kind of weather does a high pressure system produce?

Answer 27

Sunny

Question 28

What is the rivers of wind high in the atmosphere formed along the upper air boundaries of large masses of warm and cold air?

Answer 28

Jet stream

Question 29

How does the jet stream change during the summer?

Answer 29

It moves northward into Canada

Question 30

What happens to the jet stream during a major cold outbreak?

Answer 30

It often dives south

Question 31

What is a storm with lightning?

Answer 31

Thunderstorm

Question 32

What defines a thunderstorm?

Answer 32

Lightning

Question 33

What causes a thunderstorm and how does it form?

Answer 33

Lightning heats air around it, which causes the air to expand. The air begins to contrast as it cools

Question 34

How can you estimate your distance from lightning?

Answer 34

Count the time between seeing lighting and hearing thunder

Question 35

How fast does sound travel

Answer 35

One mile every five seconds

Question 36

How far away can you be hit by lightning?

Answer 36

Ten miles

Question 37

What are the two top locations for being struck by lightning?

Answer 37

1. Wide open space | 2. Near a tall tree

Question 38

What fuels a hurricane?

Answer 38

Warm air

Question 39

What is lightning that hits the ground?

Answer 39

Cloud to Ground

Question 40

What is lightning that is triggered between positive and negative charges in the cloud?

Answer 40

Cloud Cloud

Question 41

What is lightning that spreads across the sky without hitting the ground?

Answer 41

Spider lightning

Question 42

How is the earth's atmosphere heated?

Answer 42

Radiation, convection, and condensation

Question 43

How are people struck by lightning?

Answer 43

1. Direct strike 2. Splash from tree 3. Through the ground, going up one leg and out the other

Question 44

What happens when lightning strikes the body?

Answer 44

1. Rain/sweat turn into steam, clothes are blown off 2. Loss of consciousness 3. Intense muscle contraction

Question 45

If there is no shelter, what is the best thing to do during a storm?

Answer 45

Crouch on the ground on the balls of your feet

Question 46

What is winds at different heights, blowing at different speeds and different directions?

Answer 46

Wind sheer

Question 47

What is a super cell?

Answer 47

Mesocyclone

Question 48

What is it when tornados are possible?

Answer 48

Watch

Question 49

What is it when tornados are going to happen?

Answer 49

Warning

Question 50

Why is it important to have tornado chasers on the ground during a tornado?

Answer 50

To know if the tornado actually touches the ground/ground truth

Question 51

What is the scale for a tornado

Answer 51

Fujita Scale

Question 52

What is a violently rotating column of air touching the ground from a thunderstorm?

Answer 52

Tornado

Question 53

What causes the most damage during tornados?

Answer 53

Flying debree

Question 54

Do you see wind, explain

Answer 54

No, you can see what is in the wind