Weather Words
Scientists and Tools
Think like a Scientist
Science in Action
100

Water that falls from the sky as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.

What is Precipitation?

100

A scientist who studies weather.

What is a meteorologist?
100

To make a picture in your mind using information from different sources.

What is to visualize?

100

What is one tool that a meteorologist might use?

What is a thermometer? 

200

How hot or cold it is outside.

What is temperature?

200

To use a thermometer, ruler, or scale to find out information.

What is to measure?

200

To judge how useful or accurate information is.

What is to evaluate?

200

You say, “I think it will rain tomorrow because the sky is cloudy and the wind is strong.” What is this called?

What is a claim?

300

The conditions outside, including precipitation, temperature, and wind.

What is weather?

300

Observations or measurements you record in an investigation.

What is data?

300

A proposed answer to a question.

What is a claim?

300

You measure the amount of rain that falls each day for a week. What word describes the information you collected?

What is data?

400

This type of precipitation is frozen and falls in small hard pieces that would hurt if they hit your head.

What is hail?
400

A tool meteorologists might use to tell the temperature.

What is thermometer?

400

When you explain why one claim is the best using evidence.

What is an argument?

400
Evaluate the following evidence to determine which is stronger:


Evidence 1: It rained all day.

Evidence 2: It rained 15mm.

Evidence 2 is stronger.
500

When the sky is completely covered in grey clouds, you might describe the cloud cover as this.

What is overcast?

500

The unit that you use to describe temperature. It goes after the number, for example: It is 65...

what is degrees Fahrenheit? 

500

Identify the evidence: 

You need to wear a coat in Newburg. Gracie measured the temperature and found that it was 40 degrees Fahrenheit in Newburg and 50 degrees Fahrenheit in Oldburg. This means you need to wear a coat in Newburg.

"Gracie measured the temperature and found that it was 40 degrees Fahrenheit in Newburg and 50 degrees Fahrenheit in Oldburg."

500

Identify the claim:

I think it Blue Island has weather most like the weather that orangutans need. I know that orangutans need hot and rainy weather. Blue Island was the hottest and rainiest island. This means Blue Island is the best choice.

"I think it Blue Island has weather most like the weather that orangutans need."

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