Weather 1 Vocabulary
Weather 2 Vocabulary
Weather 3 Vocabulary
Weather 4 Vocabulary
Weather 5 Vocabulary
100
This forms when condensed water floats in the air near the ground.
What is fog?
100
The process in which liquid water turns into a gas or water vapor.
What is evaporation?
100
Fluffy, white clouds resembling balls of cotton that are usually associated with fair weather.
What is cumulus?
100
A weather instrument that measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
100
A weather instrument that measures temperature, air pressure, wind speed and wind direction.
What is a weather balloon?
200
An instrument that is used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
200
The amount of moisture in the air.
What is humidity?
200
What occurs when there is a violent expansion or air that has been heated by lightning.
What is thunder?
200
A measure of the force of the air pressing down on the earth.
What is air pressure?
200
A weather instrument that is used to measure the direction of the wind.
What is a wind vane?
300
The condition of the atmosphere in a specific time and place, includes temperature, clouds, wind, and precipitation.
What is weather?
300
A weather instrument that is used to measure the humidity of the atmosphere.
What is a hygrometer or psychrometer?
300
Thick, layered gray clouds that form blankets in the sky and are usually associated with rain and snow.
What is stratus?
300
Tall, dense clouds that are usually associated with thunderstorms.
What is cumulonimbus?
300
Heat that can be measured in degrees Fahrenheit or Celcius using a thermometer.
What is temperature?
400
A breeze that blows from land to open water.
What is a land breeze?
400
The air that surrounds the earth made up of different layers and gases.
What is atmosphere?
400
A powerful storm originating in the Atlantic Ocean that brings heavy rains and severe winds.
What is a hurricane?
400
The average of all weather conditions of an area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
400
A visible group of water droplets floating in the atmosphere above the earth's surface.
What is a cloud?
500
The force of winds to shift towards the right or left caused by the rotation of the Earth.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
500
Winds between 30-60 degrees latitude, responsible for many weather movements across the U.S.
What is prevailing westerlies?
500
A boundary that is formed when two air masses with different properties meet.
What is a front?
500
A large body of air with uniform properties throughout.
What is air mass?
500
Water vapor carried up from the surface by rising warm air.
What is convection?
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