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Middle round (ages 9–11): Weather. Pages: the ten question cards, two answer sheets to a page (print one page per two teams), and the key on the last page, to fold back.
1. Snow falls when the air is below freezing and has enough of what?
- A. wind
- B. sunshine
- C. moisture in the air
2. A tornado is a spinning column of air that reaches down from what?
- A. a snowbank
- B. a rainbow
- C. a thunderstorm
3. Most snowflakes are less than how wide?
- A. two inches
- B. half an inch
- C. six inches
4. When the Sun heats a lake and its water turns into vapor, what is that called?
- A. evaporation
- B. condensation
- C. precipitation
5. Hurricanes form over what?
- A. warm ocean water
- B. cold mountains
- C. dry deserts
6. A snowflake begins when a very cold water droplet freezes onto what?
- A. a bubble of air
- B. a raindrop
- C. a speck of pollen or dust
7. About how many seconds does the sound of thunder take to travel one mile?
- A. about 30 seconds
- B. about 1 second
- C. about 5 seconds
8. Rising water vapor cools and turns into the droplets that make clouds. What is this called?
- A. evaporation
- B. transpiration
- C. condensation
9. Which rain is colder than 32°F but stays liquid until it hits something?
- A. freezing rain
- B. hail
- C. sleet
10. What causes Earth's seasons?
- A. Earth moving closer to the Sun
- B. the tilt of Earth's axis
- C. the Moon blocking sunlight
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The key (for the host: fold this page back)
- C: moisture in the air. Snow falls from clouds as ice crystals.
- C: a thunderstorm. Tornadoes have been reported in all fifty U.S. states.
- B: half an inch. Half an inch is about 1.3 centimeters.
- A: evaporation. Water vapor is an invisible gas that rises into the air.
- A: warm ocean water. Warm, moist air rising off the sea is the fuel that keeps a hurricane going.
- C: a speck of pollen or dust. The speck of pollen or dust is up in the sky, and the droplet is extremely cold.
- C: about 5 seconds. Count from the flash to the thunder and divide by five to find the miles.
- C: condensation. You can see condensation when drops form on the outside of a cold glass.
- A: freezing rain. When its drops touch anything, they turn to ice at once.
- B: the tilt of Earth's axis. Northern winter actually comes when Earth is closest to the Sun.
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