Vocabulary Book #29.1

Is an instrument that sends pulses of electromagnetic energy into the atmosphere to find precipitation, determine its motion and intensity, and identify the precipitation type such as rain, snow or hail.

• Doppler

• Scanner

A North American zone where tornadoes occur more frequently than elsewhere on the continent: an unofficial and variable designation, Tornado Alley lies within a wide vertical swath of the central United States, from northern Texas into Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and South Dakota, often extending into other areas, including Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota.

• Thunderstorms

• Tornado Alley

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Of or relating to a satellite traveling in an orbit 22,300 miles (35,900 km) above the earth's equator: at this altitude, the satellite's period of rotation, 24 hours, matches the earth's and the satellite always remains in the same spot over the earth

• Orbit

• Geostationary

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

A period of dry weather, especially a long one that is injurious to crops.

• drought

• Severe weather

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

Being without moisture; extremely dry; parched

• Lava

• Arid

Harsh; unnecessarily extreme

• severe

• damage

Tags

NGSS.K-ESS3-2

Destruction, injury, or harm that reduces value or usefulness.

• damage

• resources

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

The branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science.

• Invention

• Technology

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

NGSS.MS-ETS1-4

A device designed to be launched into orbit around the earth, another planet, the sun, etc.

• space craft

• satellite

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

NGSS.MS-ETS1-2

An instrument designed or suitable for use in detecting clouds and precipitation.

• radar

• forecast