Weather Words 1
Weather Tools
Weather Words 2
Weather Events
Weather Words 3
Rotation, Revolution, and Orbit
Earth, Sun, and Moon
100
A measure of how hot or cold something is.
What is TEMPERATURE?
100
A tool used to measure temperature.
What is THERMOMETER?
100
Liquid precipitation in the form of water drops that falls from clouds for several hours.
What is RAIN?
100
A storm that always has lightning and thunder, often accompanied by rain, hail, and high winds.
What is a THUNDERSTORM?
100

A tool that meteorologists use to take pictures of the atmosphere from space.

What is a WEATHER SATELITTE?

100

It takes the earth 24 hours to make one full ___________.

What is ROTATION?

100

What keeps the 8 planets in their orbits around the sun?

What is the Sun's Gravity?

200
A severe snow storm.
What is a BLIZZARD?
200
A tool used to measure rainfall.
What is a RAIN GAUGE?
200
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is HUMIDITY?
200
It begins as a funnel cloud with spinning columns of air that drop down from a severe thunderstorm. Characterized by spinning winds, up to 300 miles per hour, which can lift houses into the air and rip trees from the ground.
What is a TORNADO?
200
A visible collection of tiny water droplets floating in the air above the surface of the Earth.
What are CLOUDS?
200

The movement of an object around another object.

What is REVOLUTION?

200

The different shapes of the moon we see throughout the month.

What are the PHASES of the MOON?

300
A cloud on the ground that reduces visibility.
What is FOG?
300

A tool that is used to measure air pressure.

What is BAROMETER?

300
The condition of the air at a particular time and place. How the air moves, and describes anything it might be carrying such as rain, snow, or clouds. Thunder, lightning, rainbows, haze and other special events are all part of this.
What is WEATHER?
300

It results from days of heavy rain and/or melting snows, when rivers rise and go over their banks.

What is a FLOOD?

300
An enormous and very hot spark of electricity produced by thunderstorms.
What is LIGHTNING?
300

The specific path an object takes as it moves around an object.

What is ORBIT?

300

The center of the solar system.

What is the SUN?

400
Precipitation that is composed of white ice crystals that fall from clouds.
What is SNOW?
400

A weather tool that measures humidity

What is HYDROMETER?

400
The weight of air pressing down on earth.
What is AIR PRESSURE?
400
An intense storm with swirling winds up to 150 miles per hour. Usually 1,000-5,000 times larger than tornadoes.
What is a HURRICANE?
400
A layer of gases surrounding a planet. Divided into five layers.
What is the ATMOSPHERE?
400

This gives us day and night.

What is Earth's ROTATION?

400

This happens when the earth's shadow is casted onto the moon, turning it red.

What is a LUNAR ECLIPSE?

500
General name for water in any form falling from clouds. This includes rain, drizzle, hail, snow and sleet.
What is PRECIPITATION?
500
A weather tool that measures wind speed.
What is ANEMOMETER?
500
A scientist who studies and predicts the weather.
What is a METEOROLOGIST?
500
A strong wind which carries sand through the air. Usually occurs in desert regions, often among sand dunes.
What is a SAND STORM?
500

Caused by the reflection and refraction (bending) of sunlight passing through raindrops. They are one of the most common but most colorful sky displays.

What is a RAINBOW?

500

Explain the difference between the earth's rotation and earth's revolution.

Earth's rotation describes its spinning on its axis. Earth's revolution describes its movement around the sun.
500

Where astronauts go to conduct experiments in space.

What is the ISS (International Space Station)?

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