Weather
Overview
Learn weather terminology and then build your own weather instruments.
Investiture Achievement Connection: This Honor is related to the Investiture Achievement requirements for WILDERNESS EXPLORER Nature Study which require (as one of two options) completing a project which covers Requirement 12 of this Honor.
Requirements
1. Explain how each of the following is formed:
- a. Fog
- b. Rain
- c. Dew
- d. Snow
- e. Sleet
- f. Hail
- g. Frost
2. Identify either in the sky or from pictures the following types of clouds: cirrus, cumulus, stratus, nimbus. What kind of weather is associated with each.
3. Explain the action of a mercury or spirit thermometer, a mercury barometer, an aneroid barometer, and a rain gauge.
4. Why is it possible to be rainy on one side of the mountain range and dry on the other? Give an illustration for your country or region.
- a. Why is it cooler and more moist in the mountains than in the lowlands?
- b. From which direction do rain and clear weather usually come in your locality?
5. Show with the help of a diagram how the earth’s relationship to the sun produces the seasons.
6. What causes lightning and thunder? What different kinds of lightning are there?
7. Show with the help of a diagram what a convection is. What is its relation to winds?
8. Explain how radar, satellites, and computers are used in weather forecasting.
9. Tell how the following can affect our weather:
- a. Jet stream
- b. Volcano eruption
10. Make a drawing showing the water cycle in weather.
11. Make a simple wind vane or rain gauge.
12. Keep a weather chart for one week and record readings at 12-hour intervals. Include the following:
- a. Temperature
- b. Moisture (dew, fog, rain, frost, or snow)
- c. Cloud formation
- d. Wind direction
1. Explain the formation of fog, rain, dew, snow, hail and frost.
2. Recognize the following 4 clouds in the sky or on pictures:
- Cirrus
- Cumulus
- Stratus
- Nimbus
3. How and when do these clouds form? What kind of weather do they herald?
4. Explain how a thermometer, barometer and hydrometer work.
5. Why does it rain more on Europe’s Atlantic coast and why is it drier inland?
6. Why does rain usually come from the West and good weather from the East?
7. Name 5 elements that determine time.
8. What kind of weather do the following phenomena predict?
- easterly wind
- fog
- yellowish sunset
- swallows flying high in the evening
- moon surrounded by a halo
9. Know how to read a weather map and explain the signs.
10. Build and test a rain gauge.
11. Visit a weather station.
Answer key & resources
Master awards
This honor counts toward:
Investiture Achievement
This honor is required, suggested or listed as an option in:
See also
- Climate Science - AdvancedHonor
- Weather - AdvancedHonor
- NavigationHonor
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