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EATHER...HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?
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by Chuck Kleber
rom “All flights cancelled” to “Up, up and away” and soft breezes on a beautiful island, the weather has an enormous
impact on our lives. It brings abundance and drought, and the winds that gently fill sails create devastation when they are
Fof hurricane force. It is with us everyday. From the thousand questions that could be asked, here are just 14 to test your
knowledge.
1. Wind velocity is commonly measured 7. The most dangerous form of lightning 13. Periodic warm winds in California
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according to (a) the Beaufort Scale, ○ ○ is (a) ground-to-ground, (b) ball, ○ are known as (a) Santa Ana winds,
(b) Greenwich Measure, (c) International ○ (c) cloud-to-ground ○ ○ (b) Baja winds, (c) the Westerlies
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Wind Rating Chart ○ ○
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8. Some Native American tribes believed ○ 14. The Monsoons brings heavy and sus-
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2. For the ancient Greeks, lightning was ○ that thunder was created by the mystical ○ tained rainfall to much of Southeast Asia
something to marvel at and fear as hurled ○ ○ “Thunderbird,” the sound coming from ○ ○ during (a) April to September, (b) Decem-
by (a) Hercules, (b) Mercury, (c) Zeus ○ ○
(a) the flapping wings, (b) its raucous call, ○ ber and January, (c) October through
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(c) fighting with the rain god ○ March
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3. Air currents can be particularly vio- ○
lent and dangerous in clouds called ○ ○
(a) stratocumulus, (b) cirrus, (c) cumu- ○ 9. One record hailstone was 140 mm in Answers on page 6
○ diameter, but they are commonly (a) 1-3
lonimbus ○
mm, (b) 5-10 mm, (c) 10-20 mm
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4. Evidence now indicates the great ○ ○ Desert Trumpet
drought in the late 1200s/early 1300s ○ 10. The great drought in the mid-west ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
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materially forced the Anasazi to vacate ○ USA of the 1930s has been called (a) the
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their villages in (a) Mesa Verde and ○ Migration, (b) the Dust Bowl, (c) the Barb Wolin
Chaco Canyon, (b) Mesa Verde and ○ ○ Great Dry
Contributing Writers
Sonora Bluff, (c) Tonto Basin ○
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11. Trade Winds are prevailing winds that Tom Phaendler
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5. Hurricanes are tropical winds that ○ blow (a) away from the equator, (b) in Jack Ryan
exceed (a) 50 miles per hour, (b) 74 miles ○ ○ the Southwest Pacific, (c) toward the H. Dan Wray
per hour, (c) 92 miles per hour ○ equator from northeast to southwest
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6. The winds of a hurricane circulate ○ 12. A belt of low pressure is called Donald Schoengold
(a) clockwise, (b) counter-clockwise, ○ ○ (a) calms, (b) a tranquil, (c) the doldrums Christina Wilkinson
(c) both Barb Wolin
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