Answer the following questions about weather. Be sure to read carefully and record your answers on your answer sheet.

1. How are climate and weather related?
http://weathereye.kgan.com/cadet/climate/climate_vs.html

2. What role does the atmosphere play in our day to day weather?
http://www.wxdude.com/page1.html

3. What are the two big factors that effect weather?
http://www.wxdude.com/page1.html

4. What is precipitation and what causes precipitation to occur?
http://www.wildwildweather.com/precipitation.htm

5. What are clouds?
http://www.wildwildweather.com/clouds.htm

6. What are the four major types of clouds?
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/cld/cldtyp/home.rxml

7. Who named the clouds? How were they named?
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/Flagstaff/science/clouds.htm

8. Describe the following clouds:
http://vortex.plymouth.edu/clouds.html

Cumulus -
Cirrus -
Nimbostratus -

9. What is humidity? Name the three states in which humidity can exists?
http://www.wildwildweather.com/humidity.htm

10. . Name the weather instruments used to measure the following:
http://www.wxdude.com/page21.html

temperature -
wind speed -
air pressure -
precipitation -

11. How do weather forecasters forecast the weather?
http://www.wxdude.com/page21.html

12. Name the six forms of precipitation?
http://www.wildwildweather.com/precipitation.htm

13. What is the difference between rain and drizzle?
http://www.wildwildweather.com/precipitation.htm

14. What is snow and what causes it to fall?
http://library.thinkquest.org/5818/snow.html?tqskip1=1

15. Name the types of snowflakes and the temperature range when they occur?
http://library.thinkquest.org/5818/snow.html?tqskip1=1

16. What is a hurricane?
http://www.wildwildweather.com/hurrican.htm

17. Describe the rotation and wind speed of a hurricane?
http://www.fema.gov/kids/hurr.htm

18. Why are hurricanes given names? Who decides on hurricane names?
http://www.fema.gov/kids/hunames.htm

19. What is a tornado?
http://www.wildwildweather.com/twisters.htm

20. What is the difference between a tornado warning and a tornado watch?
http://www.fema.gov/kids/tornado.htm