Head in the Clouds
Low flying stratus clouds that you can walk through.
What is fog?
The tool that measures the temperature of the air.
What is a thermometer?
Rain, sleet, hail, and snow are all forms of this.
What is precipitation?
Blue triangles on a weather map indicate this.
What is a cold front or cold air mass?
This will let you know how much rain has fallen over a given amount of time.
What is a rain gauge?
High, wispy clouds that are made of ice crystals.
What are cirrus?
The device that tells you what direction the wind is blowing form.
What is a wind (weather) vane?
The movement of water from one place to another.
What is the water cycle?
Red semicircles on a weather map indicate this.
What is a warm front or warm air mass?
The name of a violent windstorm that is produced from a cumulonimbus cloud.
What is a tornado?
Puffy, white clouds with flat bottoms.
What are cumulus?
A barometer measures this.
What is air pressure?
This occurs when the sun's thermal energy makes liquid water turn into a gas.
What is evaporation?
Cumulus clouds indicate this kind of weather.
What is "fair weather"?
This is the source of energy that drives the weather on our planet.
What is the sun or solar energy?
What are thunderheads?
This is a device used to measure the speed of the wind.
What is an anemometer?
Water vapor in the atmosphere begins to cool and come together to form clouds.
What is condensation?
The different colors on a weather map tell you this.
What is temperature?
This is created by warm air rising and cool air rushing in to take its place.
What is wind?
The low flying clouds that can produce days of steady rain.
What are nimbostratus?
A hygrometer will tell you how much of this is in the air.
What is moisture or water vapor?
The word that describes when the water cycle will end.
What is never?
What are clouds and rain?
The type of weather that is commonly found where warm and cold fronts meet.
What is rain?