States of Water
The instrument you use to measure precipitation.
What is a rain gauge?
What does a blue H mean on the weather map?
What is High pressure?
The type of precipitation where liquid water becomes a solid.
This weather instrument measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
The type of weather you get in high pressure areas is
What is fair weather?
A cloud at or near the ground is called this.
What is fog?
The step of the water cyle at which liquid water becomes a gas
evaporation
The weather instrument that measures wind speed is called a
What is anemometer?
What type of weather does a red L on a weather map indicate?
A snowstorm in New York is an example of this.
What is weather?
The common form of precipitation that is liquid
What is rain?
The weather instrument that measures the temperature.
What is a thermometer?
What is weather?
What is the temperature and precipitation at a given location at a specific time?
These clouds are stormy dark thunderstorm clouds
cumulonimbus
The source of energy that powers the water cycle
What is the sun?
What step of the water cycle causes water to run over earths surface back into rivers, streams and oceans?
What is runoff?
shows the direction from which the wind blows
What is a weather vane?
Why is climate different than weather?
weather is what is happening right now at a specific place while climate is weather patterns over long periods of time
List the cloud types in order from lowest to highest in the sky
Stratus, cirrus, cumulus