Meteorology for Kids Trivia

1. In a tornado, what direction does the wind blow?

From Quiz Weather for Kids

Answer: All directions

In a tornado, winds blow in a spiral, which is similar to circle, so they blow in all directions. Winds inside tornadoes have been recorded at over 300 miles per hour!

From Quiz What is Weather?

Answer: Precipitation

Precipitation is any form of water that comes from clouds and goes to the Earth's surface. However, not all clouds produce precipitation.

From Quiz The Greenhouse Effect

Answer: Winter

Yes, they're meant for providing a warm space for plants in general to grow when it's too cold for them outside, like in winter. They're designed to draw light from the sun inside and keep heat energy in.

From Quiz Rainbows

Answer: The Wizard of Oz

"The Wizard of Oz" is a book and movie about a girl named Dorothy who goes to a land over the rainbow and has to find her way home.

From Quiz Weather for Kids

Answer: Lightning

Lightning creates thunder, so it must come first. When lightning occurs, it sends electrons through the air, making air molecules vibrate. The vibrations cause sound, and as the sound moves, it bounces off things in its way-the ground, trees, buildings, etc. That's what makes the thunder sound we hear. Although thunder sounds scary, it isn't dangerous at all. Lightning, on the other hand, can be deadly.

From Quiz What is Weather?

Answer: Humidity

When it is humid, you sometimes feel sticky because of the water vapor in the air. The more water vapor, the more humid it is.

From Quiz Rainbows

Answer: violet

When listed from outside arch to inside arch, the order is red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet.

From Quiz Weather for Kids

Answer: The temperature when water vapor in the air changes to liquid water

The air always has some water in it, in the form of a gas called "water vapor". When air temperatures cool down after sunset, things like the grass and cars cool down, too. When it all cools down enough, the water vapor in the air condenses; that means it turns into droplets of liquid water we call "dew". It settles on the things that have cooled off. If the temperature is below freezing, ice forms instead - and that's called frost. The temperature when dew forms is known as the dew point.

From Quiz Rainbows

Answer: red

The order of the colors of the rainbow spell "ROY G BIV" when listed from outside arch to inside arch.

From Quiz What is Weather?

Answer: There was too much water vapor in the air, so some condensed onto leaves and the ground.

If there is dew, then there was probably a lot of water vapor in the air when it occurred. The temperature that this condensation begins at is called the dew point.

From Quiz The Greenhouse Effect

Answer: Below 0 degrees Celsius.

This is because we need the greenhouse gases to trap the heat inside to keep us warm, just like a normal greenhouse keeps traps heat inside to keep plants warm. The major greenhouse gases are water vapour, carbon dioxide and methane (as mentioned earlier in this quiz).

From Quiz Rainbows

Answer: Noah

This story is found in the book of Genesis in the Bible. Noah took two of every animal onto a giant boat called an ark, and when he got off the ark, there was a rainbow in the sky.

From Quiz Weather for Kids

Answer: A tornado over water

Waterspouts are tornadoes - usually very weak tornadoes - that form over a body of water. Once in a while waterspouts can move off the water onto the shore, but they usually fall apart quickly after this happens. Still, if you see a waterspout, get away from it, because they can be dangerous!

From Quiz What is Weather?

Answer: The sun

Energy from the sun to Earth is provided by electromagnetic waves. Radiation is the direct transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves.

From Quiz Rainbows

Answer: A pot of gold

A lot of people have tried to get to the end of the rainbow to find this pot of gold, but no one has ever been successful in finding it.

From Quiz Weather for Kids

Answer: The Northern Lights

Aurora was, in ancient Rome, the goddess of the dawn. Her name comes from the Latin language, and refers to light (dawn = sunrise). Both Latin and Greek had the word "boreal", which meant "north". Combined, the two mean "north light". The Northern Lights can be seen at night in areas north of the equator when electrons and protons from the sun are blown toward earth by strong winds. They look like shimmering curtains of pale shades of green, pink, red, purple, and sometimes yellow and even blue. There are also "Southern Lights"-"Aurora Australis". They happen south of the equator.

From Quiz The Greenhouse Effect

Answer: Infrared rays

When sunrays reach the Earth, the Earth's surface is warmed up and gives off its own rays, this time in the form of heat energy. The infrared rays escape into space, but some of them are reflected back to Earth by the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

From Quiz Rainbows

Answer: Reading

The show is called "Reading Rainbow" and each episode is about a different book. I used to love this show when I was little.

From Quiz Weather for Kids

Answer: The pattern of its crystals

It has long been thought that each snowflake has a unique crystalline pattern. Lately science has raised some doubts about this belief, but even scientists agree that it would be virtually impossible to find two that are identical.

From Quiz What is Weather?

Answer: Troposphere

Tropo- means "turning" or "changing". Weather changes all the time! We live in the troposphere. The troposphere extends from 0 to 12 km above the Earth.

From Quiz The Greenhouse Effect

Answer: Global warming

Antarctica has had chunks of ice break off it before. Some scientists think global warming has caused this. So, now you know what it does, and can do, try to make sure there are enough trees to suck up all that extra carbon dioxide, and stop running through the gardens at school, kids!

From Quiz Rainbows

Answer: It rains lightly

Usually rainbows show up when it rains lightly while the sun is still shining.

From Quiz Weather for Kids

Answer: Hail

Hail is made inside thunderclouds-not all thunderclouds, though. Two things are needed for hail to form: Strong updrafts inside the cloud (an updraft is when wind blows upwards, away from the earth) and freezing temperatures in the upper part of the cloud. Hail starts out as rain that gets caught in the updrafts and blown into the freezing part of the cloud, freezes into ice, begins to fall to earth, gets wet again, gets caught again in the updraft, and goes back to the freezing part of the cloud. This time a new thin layer of rain freezes onto the ice. Each time the ice gets caught in the updraft and returns to the frozen part of the cloud, a little more water freezes onto it and it gets bigger and heavier. Eventually the ice-now called a hailstone-gets too heavy for the updraft to blow it back into the top of the cloud, and it falls to earth. Hailstones can be very dangerous if they are large, and they can damage cars, houses and heads even if they are just a couple of inches in diameter.

From Quiz What is Weather?

Answer: Nitrogen

The four main gases in dry air are nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and water vapor. Oxygen is the second-most common gas in dry air.

From Quiz The Greenhouse Effect

Answer: Troposphere

This troposphere, which is about ten kilometres thick, also contains oxygen for us to breathe in addition to the greenhouse gases.

From Quiz Weather for Kids

Answer: Cumulonimbus

Cumulonimbus clouds can be a sign of stormy weather approaching - not only thunderstorms, but also tornadoes, hail and even snow. Cirrus clouds are very high clouds formed mostly of ice. Stratus clouds kind of cover the sky with gray, and can sometimes produce light rain, but usually not severe storms. Mammatus clouds are a sign of unstable weather; they are often associated with storms that produce tornadoes.

From Quiz Rainbows

Answer: A leprechaun

The story of the leprechaun started in Ireland, and the story goes that he is searching for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. The spokesguy for the cereal Lucky Charms is a leprechaun.

From Quiz Rainbows

Answer: prism

If you shine a light just right through a clear glass or plastic prism, it will project a beautiful rainbow on the wall.

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