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Book: Extreme Weather
Author: Susan Ring
ISBN: 978-0-02-202544-1
Introduction
1. What do Meteorologists use to forecast the weather?
Chapter 1: Rain
2. What is rain?
3. What is water vapor?
4. What is the atmosphere?
5. What is the lower 6 miles of the atmosphere called?
6. What is a characteristic of the troposphere?
7. How are floods created?
8. What are thunderstorms?
9. How are lightning bolts created?
10. The amount of light produced by a flash of lightning is about the same as _________________________ light bulbs.
11. The lightning flash does not produce head. True or False
12. The lightning flash is not 5 times hotter than the sun. True or False
13. What is thunder?
14. What is a supercell?
15. What is the difference between a thunderstorm and a supercell?
16. What is mist?
17. Mist is made up of billions of small droplets of water suspended in the air. True or False
18. What is fog?
19. What is a monsoon?
20. In which continent do the people write poems, play music, and have festivals that honor monsoons?
21. In which continent is the monsoon seen as a symbol of a mythic five-toed dragon?
Chapter 2: Ice and Snow
22. What is an ice storm?
23. What is sleet?
24. What is the coldest temperature recorded in the United States?
25. Where was this coldest temperature recorded?
26. What are snowflakes?
27. How many sides do snowflakes have?
28. How is a blizzard created?
29. How strong are the winds during a blizzard?
30. If you were walking outside, can you see during a blizzard?
31. What is a whiteout?
32. How many inches of snow does the South Pole get a year?
33. What are hailstones?
34. There’s a region in the U.S. that hailstorms occur often. What is this region called?
35. What states are included in this region?
36. How long do hailstorms last?
37. What does hail sound like?
Go to Directory
Book: Extreme Weather
Author: Susan Ring
ISBN: 978-0-02-202544-1
Introduction
1. What do Meteorologists use to forecast the weather?
Chapter 1: Rain
2. What is rain?
3. What is water vapor?
4. What is the atmosphere?
5. What is the lower 6 miles of the atmosphere called?
6. What is a characteristic of the troposphere?
7. How are floods created?
8. What are thunderstorms?
9. How are lightning bolts created?
10. The amount of light produced by a flash of lightning is about the same as _________________________ light bulbs.
11. The lightning flash does not produce head. True or False
12. The lightning flash is not 5 times hotter than the sun. True or False
13. What is thunder?
14. What is a supercell?
15. What is the difference between a thunderstorm and a supercell?
16. What is mist?
17. Mist is made up of billions of small droplets of water suspended in the air. True or False
18. What is fog?
19. What is a monsoon?
20. In which continent do the people write poems, play music, and have festivals that honor monsoons?
21. In which continent is the monsoon seen as a symbol of a mythic five-toed dragon?
Chapter 2: Ice and Snow
22. What is an ice storm?
23. What is sleet?
24. What is the coldest temperature recorded in the United States?
25. Where was this coldest temperature recorded?
26. What are snowflakes?
27. How many sides do snowflakes have?
28. How is a blizzard created?
29. How strong are the winds during a blizzard?
30. If you were walking outside, can you see during a blizzard?
31. What is a whiteout?
32. How many inches of snow does the South Pole get a year?
33. What are hailstones?
34. There’s a region in the U.S. that hailstorms occur often. What is this region called?
35. What states are included in this region?
36. How long do hailstorms last?
37. What does hail sound like?
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