Scientists record patterns in weather conditions across time and place to make predictions about what kind of weather might occur next. The name for the predictions is __________.
What is a forecast?
Wind speed is measured with a/an __________ as the wind causes the cups to spin.
What is anemometer?
I represent this on a weather map.
What is a cold front?
It is a layer of gases that surrounds the Earth that supports life.
What is the atmosphere?
When water droplets in the air become too heavy they fall as a result of gravity in the form of _________.
What is precipitation?
__________ describes the range of an area’s typical weather conditions and the extent to which those conditions vary over long periods of time.
What is climate?
Wind direction is determined with a ___________.
What is a weather vane?
This type of pressure brings fair weather.
What is high pressure?
________ Is the Source Of Heat Energy, That drives The water cycle.
What Is The Sun?
________ is the source of the heat energy that drives the water cycle
What is the sun?
I am a prediction about the weather.
What is a forecast?
Amount of precipitation is measured in a/an ______.
What is a rain gauge?
I represent this on a weather map.
What is a warm front?
This gas makes up about 21% of the air that surrounds earth.
What is oxygen?
________ clouds are puffy with flat bottoms and signal fair weather.
What are cumulus clouds?
Air temperature is measured using a/an ________.
What is a thermometer?
Water in the form of a gas is located in the layer of air that is closest to earth. The name for water in the form of gas is ____________.
What is water vapor?
________ clouds are spread over a large area and are layered. As these clouds thicken long periods of precipitation can occur over the area where the clouds are located.
What are stratus clouds?
A scientists who studies the weather
What is a meteorologists?
Temperature can be measured in two different degrees, ______________and/or _______________.
What is Fahrenheit or Celsius?
The four main processes in the water cycle
What are evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff?