Instruments
A tool that measures temperature.
What is a thermometer?
Clouds that are whispy and high in the sky. They bring fair weather, but change could be coming.
What are Cirrus Clouds?
The amount of water that falls from the sky (rain, sleet, snow, and hail)
What is precipitation?
Cold air mass pushing into a warm air mass. This can produce thunderstorms.
What is a cold front?
The study of the weather and making predictions based on weather patterns.
What is Meteorology?
A tool that measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
Clouds that are a flat gray blanket low in the sky. These clouds bring light rain and drizzle.
What are stratus clouds?
A storm that forms over warm tropical waters
What is a hurricane?
Warm air mass pushing into a cold air mass. This can produce light rain.
What is a warm front?
The condition of the atmosphere at a certain place and time.
What is Weather?
A tool that measures the amount of precipitation.
What is a rain gauge?
Clouds that are like giant cotton balls in the middle of the sky. These clouds bring fair weather.
What are cumulus clouds?
Precipitation in solid ice crystals.
What is snow?
Low pressure = _____ weather
What is lousy?
The weather in a certain area over a long period of time. (Think annually)
What is climate?
A tool that measures humidity.
What is a hygrometer?
Clouds that take up almost the whole sky. They are dark and bring thunderstorms.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
These form from thunderstorms as a column of warm air begins to spin and from a funnel cloud.
What are tornados?
High pressure = _____ weather
A blanket of air that surrounds the Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
The difference between a Wind Vane and Anemometer.
Wind Vanes measure wind direction.
Anemometers measure wind speed.
These clouds can sometimes bring tornados.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
Small frozen lumps of snow.
What is hail?
This fronts symbol is red half circles.
What is a warm front?
A mixture of rain and snow
What is sleet?