Weather: Types of Fronts

What is severe weather?

• Weather that only happens every 100 years

• Extreme weather that puts people, animals, or buildings at risk

• Light rain in the Spring

• Windy days

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Which of the following is considered to be severe weather?

• Tornadoes

• Blizzards

• Hurricanes

• Floods and Droughts

• All of the above

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What is a tornado?

• Storms with blowing snow, high winds, and cold temperatures

• Fast spinning column of air from the sky down to Earth's surface

• A storm with heavy wind and rain that forms over ocean waters

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What is a blizzard?

• Storms with blowing snow, high winds, and cold temperatures

• Storms with high winds, heavy rain that form over ocean waters

• Fast spinning column of air from the sky down to Earth's surface

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

What is a hurricane?

• Fast spinning column of air from the sky down to Earth's surface

• Storms with blowing snow, high winds, and cold temperatures

• Storms with high winds, heavy rain that form over ocean waters

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Severe weather has a big impact on the biosphere and geosphere.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

How does a drought affect plants and animals?

• Droughts do not affect plants and animals

• Droughts only affect plants

• Causes less habitat for animals, less plants, and less food for other animals

• Droughts only affect animals

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

How does a flood affect the geosphere? Choose all that apply.

• Wears down mountains

• Floods do not affect the geosphere

• Causes mudslides on hills

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Weather is the condition of the atmosphere at a given place and time.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

What is a front?

• the boundary between 2 air masses of different temperatures

• the boundary between 2 air masses of same temperatures

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6