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(n) __________.
What is a weather vane?
This type of pressure brings fair weather.
What is high pressure?
The names of the five air mass types.
What is cT,cA,CP,mT,mP
________ 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?
These types of images can be used to observe cloud cover and track the motion of weather systems, such as fronts and hurricanes.
What are satellite images?
Air temperature is measured using a/an ________.
What is a thermometer?
The symbols displayed by a large red H on a weather map signals.
What is high pressure.
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?
The day to day changes in temperature.
What is weather
A scientists who studies the weather
What is a meteorologists?
Temperature can be measured what degrees, ______________.
What is Fahrenheit
According to the weather map, ______ is experiencing the coldest weather.
What is Denver?
The layer of the atmosphere that is closest to the Earth’s surface.
What is the troposphere?
The four main processes in the water cycle
What are evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff?