Fifth Grade Weather Scavenger Hunt

Click on the links BELOW each question to answer the questions. You will usually have to scroll down the entire page. You should SKIM the page (looking for bold-faced word and picture clues) to help you find the answers. After you write the answer down on your paper, click the BACK button to get back to the hunt and go to the next question.

1. What are the basic ingredients of weather (there are 4) AND where does our weather originate?
   http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/basic.html
   
    
2. What causes temperature changes? (You MUST include the explanation of kinetic energy.)
   http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/basic1.html
   
   
    
3. What is air pressure AND what happens when temperature goes up?
   http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/basic2.html
   
   
   
    
4. Why is volume an important ingredient of weather?
   http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/basic3.html
   
   
   
    
5. Look at this diagram on density. What effect do you think density has on weather?
   http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/basic4.html
   
   
   
    
6. Precipitation can fall as rain, hail, freezing rain, sleet, and snow. What is the difference between hail, freezing rain, and sleet? Which do you think is most dangerous and why? (HINT: you have to check out EACH link to be able to answer this question.)
   http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/cld/prcp/home.rxml
   
   
   
    
7. What is the jetstream and is it faster or slower in the winter?
   http://www.wildwildweather.com/wind.htm
   
   
   
    
8. How wide is the jet stream and how high above the earth is it usually?
   http://www.wildwildweather.com/wind.htm
   
   
   
    
9. Using the information on this page, how might you draw the weather symbols we might be experiencing during a NorEaster when the sky is completely overcast, snow is heavy, and winds are 30 knots.
   http://weather.unisys.com/surface/details.html
   
   
   
    
10. What conditions make a storm a hurricane?
    http://www.weatherquestions.com/What_causes_hurricanes.htm
    
    
    
     
11. How many categories of hurricanes are there?
    http://www.weatherquestions.com/What_causes_hurricanes.htm
    
    
    
     
12. How can you prepare for a hurricane (give 3 things your family should think about)?
    http://www.fema.gov/kids/knw_hur.htm
    
    
     
13. How high can wind speeds reach in a tornado?
    http://www.fema.gov/kids/tornado.htm
    
    
    
     
14. What precautions should you take if there is a tornado warning?
    http://www.fema.gov/kids/knw_tor.htm
    
    
    
     
15. Carbon Monoxide poisoning can be deadly. When is it most dangerous and what are some of the biggest causes of carbon monoxide poisoning?
    http://www.crh.noaa.gov/oax/safety/carbonmon.php
    
    
    
     
16. What happens if nimbo appears at the beginning of a cloud name or nimbus appears at the end?
    http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/cloud3.html
    
    
    
     
17. Play the cloud matching game.
    http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/cloudmatch.html
    
     
18. What is the average high and average low temperatures in Concord, NH in March?
    http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/usa/nh/wconcord.htm
    
    
     
19. What does Doppler Radar tell us?
    http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wdoppler.htm
    
    
    
     
20. Click back on the Home Button, Go back to Fifth, go down the page to the weather pages there and find 5 facts about weather or weather safety that you did NOT know. Tell which site you found them on.