Instruments and a few other things
Precipitation
Clouds
Vocabulary
Storms and miscellaneous stuff
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A tool that measures air pressure:

Barometer


100

Raindrops that are pushed up over and over again into tall clouds and freeze before falling to earth:

hail

100

puffy, fluffy, cotton-ball looking clouds:

cumulus

100

The distance above sea level:

altitude

100

The layer of atmosphere where weather occurs:

troposphere

200

A tool that measures wind speed:

Anemometer

200

Raindrops that freeze on their way to earth and land as tiny ice pellets:

sleet

200

A uniform, flat, gray layer of cloud cover:

stratus

200

The condition of the atmosphere at any given time:

weather

200

The storm that forms over ocean water:

hurricanes

300

A body of air that has the same temperature and moisture:

air mass

300

water droplets in clouds that join together to make large drops:

rain

300

Wispy, feathery-looking clouds

Cirrus
300

water vapor in the atmosphere:

humidity

300

A storm that has high winds and a funnel cloud:

tornado

400
The boundary where two unlike air masses meet is called:

front

400
Ice crystals in the clouds that join together and fall to the earth form:

snow

400

What do condensed water vapor or ice crystals form?

Clouds

400

People who study atmosphere and weather:

meteorologists

400

The thin blanket of gases and dust particles that surround the earth:

atmosphere

500

Any type of solid or liquid water that falls from the atmosphere and reaches the ground:

precipitation

500

The weight of air:  

air pressure

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