Weather Tools
Water Cycle
Vocab
Severe Weather
Weather Symbols
100
This tool measures the air temperature
What is a thermometer?
100
Water turning into water vapor from the suns heat
What is evaporation?
100
Degree of hotness or coldness the can be measured is called
What is temperature?
100
A storm with lightning and thunder is called.
What is a thunderstorm?
200
This tool measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
200
When water dropplets grow bigger and more nunerous it forms these.
What are clouds?
200
Air in motion is called
What is wind?
200
A sudden flooding that occurs when floodwaters rise rapidly with no warning within several hours of an intense rain is called.
What is a flash flood?
300
This tool has cups that catch the wind, turning a dial attached to the instrument.
What is anemometer?
300
When rain freezes before it hits the ground it forms these.
What is hail?
300
The average weather usually taken over a 30-year time period for a particular region and time period is called
What is climate?
300
Rain drops that freeze into ice pellets before reaching the ground is called
What is sleet?
300
What is the name of this weather tool
What are Stationary Fronts
400
What tool measures the water vapor content of air or the humidity.
What is a hygrometer?
400
Snow,rain,and sleet are examples of.
What is precipatation?
400
A layer of gases surrounding a planet is called
What is atmosphere?
400
Violent rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground is called.
What is a tornado?
400
This pitures is
What is a High Pressure System?
500
This tool shows how much precipitation (rain, snow or hail) that falls each day
What is a rain gauge?
500
When precipitation gathers into rivers and streams it is called.
What is runnoff?
500
A person who studies weather and forcasting is called.
What is a meteorologist?
500
Something that rotates in a counter-clockwise direction around an "eye" in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise direction in the Southern Hemisphere is called.
What is a hurricane?
M
e
n
u