Weather 1
Weather Tools
Weather 2
Clouds
Water Cycle
Severe Weather
Climate 1
Climate 2
True or False
100
what the air is like at a certain ________ and ________
What are time and place
100
a tool that measures temperature
what is a thermometer?
100
Water that falls to the ground from the atmosphere
What is precipitation?
100
a collection of tiny water drops or ice crystals in the air
What is a cloud?
100
water in the gas form
water vapor
100
a dense, towering vertical cloud that can produce storm, thunder and lightening
What is a Cumulonimbus?
100
the pattern of weather at a certain place over a long time
what is a climate?
100
Climates can be describe as _____ or _______ and ______ or _________.
* hot or cold
* wet or dry
100
True or False.
All clouds bring precipitation
False.
Not all clouds bring precipitation.
200
a blanket of gases and tiny bits of dust that surround Earth
What is atmosphere?
200
a tool that measure the amount of prec
ipitation
What is a rain gauge
200
Moving air
What is wind?
200
___________ falls from clouds
what is precipitation?
(rain, snow, sleet, hail)
200
this heats up the water and change the water to gas form
the Sun
200
a powerful storm with rotating winds that forms over lands
What is a tornado?
200
Climate is the _________ of weather at a certain _______ over a long time.
What is pattern and place?
200
The places the Sun's rays strike nearly straight on have ______ climates.
What is warmer?
200
Seasons are time of the year with different climate patterns.
False.
Seasons are time of the year with different weather patterns.
300
a measurement of how hot or col something is.
What is temperature?
300
a tool that points out wind direction
What is a weather vane?
300
Air weight pressing down on Earth
What is air pressure?
300
Low, flat layers of clouds that can be grey or white
It looks like layered blanket.
What are stratus clouds?
300
The process through which water changes into the gas form (water vapor)
What is evaporation?
300
a large storm with strong winds and heavy rain.
It forms over the ocean.
What is a hurricane?
300
What describes a climate?
* its average temperature (hot or cold)
* precipitation (wet or dry)
300
Some places get less energy because Earth is ________.
What is slanted?
300
Winter in Hawaii is same from winter in Alaska.
False.
They are different.
Winter in Hawaii is warmer than the winter in Alaska.
400
Air is made of these gases (name three)
What are oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide and other gases?
400
a tool that measure how fast the air is moving
What is a anemometer?
400
Precipitation is water that falls to the ground from the _______________.
What is the atmosphere?
400
It is a stratus cloud that forms near the ground
What is fog?
400
The process through which a gas changes into a liquid
what is condensation?
400
a storm with lots of snow, cold temperatures, and strong winds
What is a blizzard?
400
Earth is shaped like a ball.
What is a sphere?
400
___________ keep air temperature nearby land have milder climates.
Oceans
400
Air that blows over mountains on the opposite side of oceans is dry.
True.
Moist air from the ocean rises upward when it meets the mountains and preciptiate. The opposite side of the mountains usually has a dry climate.
500
This heats Earth's land and water
What is the Sun's energy?
500
a tool that measures air pressure
What is a barometer?
500
Rain that freezes as it falls
What is sleet?
500
In the water cycle process, when do clouds form?
What is condensation?
500
The process through which the water falls from the clouds to Earth
What is precipitation?
500
A weather that forms over land.
It looks like a big, tall funnel.
What is a tornado?
500
a line through the center of a spinning object, like Earth
What is an axis?
500
How high a place is
What is an elevation?
500
Air temperature get warmer as you go higher in the atmosphere.
False.
Air temperature get colder as you go higher in the atmosphere.
600
To observe (watch) weather from above Earht, ________ are used.
* Satellites
600
lumps of ice that falls during a thunderstorm
* Hails
600
When water vapor condenses, water collects around this.
What are dust specks?
600
Water moves between the Earth's surface and the atmosphere
What is the water cycle?
600
What do tornados, hurricanes and blizzards have in common?
What is a storm?
What is a strong wind?
600
The part of Earth get most Sun's rays
What is an equator?
600
The mountains force the moist air from the ocean move __________.
what is upward?
600
Seasons are different from place to place.
True.
