What About Water?
All About Air
Severe Weather
Weather Instruments
Clouds!
100
When water falls from the sky, we call it this
Precipitation
100
This is what we feel when air moves from high pressure to low pressure
Wind
100
A severe storm that forms as a rapidly rotating funnel cloud
Tornado
100
This device catches precipitation and reports how much has fallen
Rain Gauge
100
This prefix means "mid-level" in the atmosphere
Alto-
200
The amount of water in the air
Humidity
200
A "package" of air the moves across the continent
Front
200
The discharge of energy just before thunder claps
Lightning
200
This has an arrow that spins freely to tell us the direction of wind movement
Wind Vain
200
This prefix means "high-level" in the atmosphere
Cirro
300
These two words describe the maximum amount of water the air can hold.
Absolute humidity
300
This kind of air sinks
Cold
300
Large, rotating tropical weather systems with high wind speeds
Hurricane
300
This instrument used a wet and dry bulb to tell us humidity in the air. Bonus (100 points): What KIND of humidity does it tell us?
Psychrometer Bonus: Relative humidity
300
Tall, puffy clouds that often bring storms
Cumulonimbus
400
Water coming from land into the oceans
Run-off
400
This is when a package of warm air is caught between two packages of cold air
Occluded Front
400
There are this many levels of the "F-scale" for tornadoes. Bonus 50 points for what "F" stands for.
6 levels (0,1,2,3,4,5,6) Bonus: Fujita
400
The ___________ tells us if the pressure is higher or lower than what we started with
Barometer
400
These clouds cover large areas, also called "overcast"
Stratus
500
Which of these is not a form of precipitation? a. Snow b. Sleet c. Fog d. Rain
c. Fog
500
This pressure system is generally associated with "fair" weather
High pressure
500
Wall of water that builds up and floods coastlines during hurricanes
Storm Surge
500
This spins freely to tell us the wind speed
Anemometer
500
When a package of air cools to its dew point, it creates a cloud, also known as ____________
Condensation
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