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Book: Extreme Weather
Author: Susan Ring
ISBN: 978-0-02-202544-1
Introduction
1. They use computers and satellites
Chapter 1: Rain
2. Rain is liquid precipitation that falls in drops from the clouds.
3. Water vapor is evaporated water that turned to gas.
4. The atmosphere is a wide blanket of air that goes all around Earth.
5. The lower 6 miles of the atmosphere is called the troposphere.
6. The troposphere is always moving and changing. It s creating all of the weather around the globe.
7. Floods are created when there is too much rain and the streams and rivers overflow.
8. Thunderstorms are powerful, violent rainstorms.
9. Bolts of lightning are created when water droplets are blown together. Then they create an electric charge.
10. 100 million
11. false
12. false
13. Thunder is the expansion of air from the heat produced by the lightning flash.
14. A supercell is a strong thunderstorm.
15. A supercell lasts for hours and spread over hundreds of miles. Thunderstorms don’t last a long time. A thunderstorm doesn’t carry strong winds while a supercell carries winds of 100 miles per hour.
16. Mist is raindrops that don’t fall to the ground and stay in the air.
17. True
18. Fog is the mist when it forms near the ground.
19. A monsoon is powerful winds that carry plenty of moisture that produce heavy rains to areas that have not seen rain for 6 months.
20. The continent of Asia.
21. The continent of Asia.
Chapter 2: Ice and Snow
22. An ice storm is when raindrops fall but the air high above ground is warm. As the raindrops get closer to the ground, they freeze by the cold air at ground level. This causes the raindrops to turn to ice and snow.
23. Sleet is rain droplets that fall in a frozen state.
24. The coldest temperature recorded in the U.S. was -80 degrees F (-62 degrees C).
25. It was recorded in Prospect Creek Camp, Alaska, in 1971.
26. Snowflakes are tiny crystals of ice.
27. Snowflakes have 6 sides.
28. It is created when you have powerful winds and a heavy snowfall.
29. The winds in a blizzard can average 35 miles per hour.
30. No, it is very hard to see during a blizzard.
31. A whiteout is the extreme condition of the blizzard that prevents people from seeing outside.
32. It gets 10-20 inches of snow.
33. They are chunks of ice that form inside powerful storm clouds.
34. This region is called Hail Alley.
35. North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Iowa, and Kansas.
36. Hailstorms last for 15 minutes.
Hail sounds like millions of table-tennis balls dropping
Book: Extreme Weather
Author: Susan Ring
ISBN: 978-0-02-202544-1
Introduction
1. They use computers and satellites
Chapter 1: Rain
2. Rain is liquid precipitation that falls in drops from the clouds.
3. Water vapor is evaporated water that turned to gas.
4. The atmosphere is a wide blanket of air that goes all around Earth.
5. The lower 6 miles of the atmosphere is called the troposphere.
6. The troposphere is always moving and changing. It s creating all of the weather around the globe.
7. Floods are created when there is too much rain and the streams and rivers overflow.
8. Thunderstorms are powerful, violent rainstorms.
9. Bolts of lightning are created when water droplets are blown together. Then they create an electric charge.
10. 100 million
11. false
12. false
13. Thunder is the expansion of air from the heat produced by the lightning flash.
14. A supercell is a strong thunderstorm.
15. A supercell lasts for hours and spread over hundreds of miles. Thunderstorms don’t last a long time. A thunderstorm doesn’t carry strong winds while a supercell carries winds of 100 miles per hour.
16. Mist is raindrops that don’t fall to the ground and stay in the air.
17. True
18. Fog is the mist when it forms near the ground.
19. A monsoon is powerful winds that carry plenty of moisture that produce heavy rains to areas that have not seen rain for 6 months.
20. The continent of Asia.
21. The continent of Asia.
Chapter 2: Ice and Snow
22. An ice storm is when raindrops fall but the air high above ground is warm. As the raindrops get closer to the ground, they freeze by the cold air at ground level. This causes the raindrops to turn to ice and snow.
23. Sleet is rain droplets that fall in a frozen state.
24. The coldest temperature recorded in the U.S. was -80 degrees F (-62 degrees C).
25. It was recorded in Prospect Creek Camp, Alaska, in 1971.
26. Snowflakes are tiny crystals of ice.
27. Snowflakes have 6 sides.
28. It is created when you have powerful winds and a heavy snowfall.
29. The winds in a blizzard can average 35 miles per hour.
30. No, it is very hard to see during a blizzard.
31. A whiteout is the extreme condition of the blizzard that prevents people from seeing outside.
32. It gets 10-20 inches of snow.
33. They are chunks of ice that form inside powerful storm clouds.
34. This region is called Hail Alley.
35. North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Iowa, and Kansas.
36. Hailstorms last for 15 minutes.
Hail sounds like millions of table-tennis balls dropping
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