Weather Instruments
Weather Predictions
Water Cycle & Weather
Clouds
Climate
100
an instrument to record the amount of rainfall in a given area
What is a rain gauge?
100
liquid that falls from the sky when a cloud becomes saturated
What is rain?
100
when water turns from a liquid to a gas during heating
What is evaporation?
100
high feathery clouds
What are cirrus clouds?
100
a layer of gases that surrounds Earth
What is the atmosphere?
200
an instrument for measuring temperature
What is a thermometer?
200
frozen rain?
What is sleet (or snow, or hail)?
200
the movement of air from one place to another caused by a difference in pressure
What is wind?
200
thick, gray clouds that span the entirety of the sky
What are stratus clouds?
200
the two main factors used to determine a climate
What are temperature and precipitation?
300
an instrument that measures air pressure
What is a barometer?
300
tiny ice crystals that form when water vapor condenses near the ground and freezes.
What is frost?
300
water in the form of a gas
What is water vapor?
300
puffy white clouds
What are cumulus clouds?
300
these latitudes receive more solar energy than the high latitudes
What is low latitudes?
400
an instrument that measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
400
a giant swirling storm that forms over oceans that brings rain and heavy winds
What is a hurricane?
400
the process of water vapor (a gas) changing into a liquid through cooling
What is condensation?
400
tall cumulus clouds that bring thunderstorms
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
400
the three climate zones
What are polar, temperate, and tropical?
500
an instrument that measures the amount of humidity in the air
What is a hygrometer? OR What is a psychrometer?
500
a storm that forms when cumulus clouds pile up and bring rain, wind, and lightning
What is thunderstorm?
500
the temperature at which clouds, fog, and dew form
What is the dew point?
500
the surface or substance water vapor uses to condense onto when becoming a cloud (i.e. smoke or salt)
What is a condensation nuclei?
500
Adel is located in this climate zone?
What is temperate?
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