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Weather or Not Event Test

This document appears to be part of a regional elementary school science olympiad competition involving weather and meteorology. It includes questions to test students' knowledge of cloud types, weather instruments, reading weather maps and atmospheric pressure, and distinguishing different types of tropical cyclones. The questions cover topics like matching cloud images to their proper names, identifying locations of low pressure or precipitation on a weather map, recording temperature measurements, and explaining the differences between hurricanes, tropical cyclones, and typhoons.

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Weather or Not Event Test

This document appears to be part of a regional elementary school science olympiad competition involving weather and meteorology. It includes questions to test students' knowledge of cloud types, weather instruments, reading weather maps and atmospheric pressure, and distinguishing different types of tropical cyclones. The questions cover topics like matching cloud images to their proper names, identifying locations of low pressure or precipitation on a weather map, recording temperature measurements, and explaining the differences between hurricanes, tropical cyclones, and typhoons.

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Georgia Regional Elementary

Science Olympiad

Weather or Not

1. What is the
name of
this device?
2. What does
it measure?

Match a cloud name to the clouds pictured. Not all words will
be used.

A.
Altostratus
B.
Cirrocumulus
C.
Cirrostratus
D.

Cirrus

E.

Cumulus

F.
Cumulonimbu
s
G.
Nimbostratus

4
5

H.

Nimbus

I.

Stratus

10
11
A. Altocumul
us
B. Altostratus
C.
Cirrocumulus

12

D.
Cirrostratus
E.

Cirrus

F.

Cumulus

G.
Cumulonimbu

13

14

15.What is the
name of this
weather
instrument?
16.Record the
temperature in
degrees
Fahrenheit.
17.Record the
temperature in
degrees
Celsius.

E
D

Use the map above, and the locations marked A-F, to answer the
following questions.
18. The center of a low pressure system would be found at which
location? ________
19. At which location(s) would you expect to see precipitation?
__________
20. What is atmospheric pressure at location A? _____________
21. What is the atmospheric pressure at location B?___________
22. What is the proper name for the contour lines on the map?

6. What is this a satellite image

27.What is the difference


between a hurricane, a
tropical cyclone and a
typhoon?

Regional ESO Answers


30 possible total points
Time can be a tie breaker

1. Anemometer
21. 1024+ millibars
2. Wind speed
22. Isobars
3. B
23. C, D (two points)
4. F
24. B
5. E
25. F
6. E
26. hurricane
7. C
27. Nothing. They are all three the same
8. G
but differ in their location.
9. D
10.A
11.B
12.H
13.F
14.I
15.Thermometer
16.86 degrees F
17.29 degrees C
18.F
19.A, E, F (worth three points)
20.1008-1012 millibars

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