MEASUREMENT
CLOUDS
WIND
WEATHER WORDS
MISCELLANEOUS
100
tool for measuring temperature
What is a thermometer?
100
Main ingredient of clouds
What are drops of water?
100
0 on the wind scale
What is no wind?
100
Person who studies weather
What is a meteorologist?
100
Season that follows winter
What is spring?
200
tool that shows what direction wind is blowing
What is a wind vane?
200
Low clouds that look like gray sheets that block out the sun
What is stratus?
200
1 on the wind scale
What is some wind?
200
forms when drops of water freeze and start to fall, then get tossed back into upper air again and again by stormy winds
What are hailstones?
200
Another name for fall
What is autumn?
300
tool that measures rainfall
What is a rain gauge?
300
High, thin, wispy clouds - sometimes called mare's tails
What is cirrus?
300
2 on the wind scale
What is strong wind?
300
to predict or tell what the weather will be like
What is forecast?
300
the source of all our weather
What is the sun?
400
tool that measures the speed of the wind
What is an anemometer?
400
Fluffy white clouds that look like puffs of cotton
What is cumulus?
400
swirling, funnel shaped winds of 400 or more miles per hour
What is a tornado?
400
dangerous snowstorm, low temperatures, winds of 35 miles per hour or more
What is a blizzard?
400
rain, snow, sleet and hail
What is precipitation?
500
thermometer scale where water freezes at 32 degrees
What is Fahrenheit?
500
Cloud that forms at ground level
What is fog?
500
Winds in the US come mainly from this direction, so they are called 'westerlies'.
What is west?
500
heavy rain, huge waves, wind speeds of 75 miles per hour or more
What is a hurricane?
500
frozen crystals with 6 sides
What are snowflakes?
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