Magic School Bus Inside a Hurricane
Study Guide
1) What is the air surrounding earth called?
2) Where does most of our weather take place?
3) What is air?
4) What are the properties of air?
5) When does the weather change?
6) What are the elements of weather?
7) What is moving air called?
8) What two things does hot air do?
9) What two things does cold air do?
10) What happens to the temperature when you get higher in the atmosphere?
11) What is called when liquid turns to a gas?
12) What is the gas form of water called?
13) What is it called when gas turns to liquid?
14) What are the three types of clouds?
15) Which clouds are the highest clouds in the sky and look like wisps of cotton?
16) Which clouds look like fluffy cotton balls?
17) Which clouds form a blanket?
18) Why do clouds look dark?
19) What is a hurricane watch?
20) What is a hurricane warning?
21) When is hurricane season?
22) What is the life span of a typical hurricane?
23) What is it called when electricity leaps from one raindrop to the next?
24) What is the sound of expanding air around a lightning bolt?
25) What is the calmest part of a hurricane?
26) What is the wildest part of a hurricane?
27) What is a twisting funnel shaped whirlwind that forms over land?
28) Where do hurricanes form?
29) What is the life span of a typical tornado?
30) What happens to a hurricane when it moves over land?
1) The air surrounding the earth is called atmosphere.
2) Most of our weather takes place in the troposphere.
3) Air is a mixture of gases.
4) The properties of air are that air creates pressure, air has mass , and air takes up space.
5) Weather changes when the air changes.
6) The four elements of weather are water, heat, air, and land.
7) Moving air is called wind.
8) Hot air rises and expands.
9) Cold air comes together and sinks.
10) As you get higher in the atmosphere, the temperature gets colder.
11) Evaporation is when liquid turns to gas.
12) The gas form of water is called water vapor.
13) Condensation is when gas turns to liquid.
14) The three main forms of clouds are cumulus, cirrus, and stratus.
15) The highest clouds in the sky that look like wisps of cotton are called cirrus clouds.
16) Big, fluffy clouds that look like cotton balls are called cumulus clouds.
17) Clouds that form a blanket over the sky are called stratus.
18) The ice crystals and big, heavy raindrops in rain clouds block out the sun making the clouds dark.
19) A hurricane watch means that a hurricane may strike in the next 36 hours.
20) A hurricane warning means that a hurricane is likely to strike within the next 24 hours.
21) Hurricane season is late summer and early fall.
22) The life span of a typical hurricane is 10 days.
23) When electricity jumps from one rain drop to the next, it is called lightning.
24) The sound of expanding air around a lightning bolt is called thunder.
25) The calmest part of a hurricane is the eye.
26) The wildest part of a hurricane is the eye wall.
27) A twisting funnel shaped whirlwind that forms over land is called a tornado.
28) Hurricanes form over water near the equator in the tropics.
29) The life span of a typical tornado is only a few minutes.
30) When a hurricane moves over land, it dies out.