Weather Instruments
Clouds
Water Cycle
Weather
Misc.
100
What weather instrument measures temperature?
What is a thermometer?
100
Type of cloud that looks like cotton balls, fair weather clouds
What are cumulus clouds?
100
When water from the ground, lakes, rivers or ocean "disappears" into the atmosphere
What is evaporation?
100
List five words that describe weather conditions
What is foggy, rainy, sunny, windy, snowy, humid, cloudy
100
A person who predicts the weather is called a
What is a meteorologist?
200
A weather instrument that measures wind direction
What is a weather vane?
200
Clouds that are thin and wispy. They change shape with the wind and you can see through them.
What are cirrus clouds?
200
When evaporating water forms into clouds
What is condensation?
200
Name 3 different types of severe weather
What is a hurricane, a thunder/lightning storm, a tornado, flood or a blizzards?
200
A _____________ is where a meteorologist reads the weather instruments that helps them predict the forecast.
What is a meteorological station?
300
A weather instrument that measures precipitation
What is a rain gauge?
300
Clouds that are flat or horizontal and are low in the atmosphere. You usually see them on a overcast day
What are stratus clouds?
300
Water falling on the Earth's surface. Could be rain, sleet, snow, hail.
What is precipitation?
300
Weather is constantly changing: True or false
True!
300
Where the weather conditions stay the same for a long period of time.
What is climate?
400
A weather instrument that measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
400
Thunderstorm clouds, can be tall
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
400
What do you call water running off mountains into lakes?
What is surface runoff?
400
What is atmospheric pressure?
What is a downward force or pressure from above the earth?
400
What is happening right now in the atmosphere.
What is weather?
500
A weather instrument that measures atmospheric pressure
What is a barometer?
500
Clouds are made up of
What are tiny water droplets?
500
The same water has been around for thousands of years. True or False
True, because of the water cycle, water is used over and over again.
500
What causes wind? moving air caused by differences in temperature and pressure OR lots of airplanes in the sky at one time
What is moving air caused by differences in temperature and pressure?
500
What is the hottest color of lightning?
What is purple?
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