Weather

Weather Instruments

100

This instrument is used to measure temperature. 

thermometer

200

This instrument in used to determine which direction the wind is blowing. 

Wind Vane 

300

This instrument is used to measure wind speed and direction. 

Anemometer

400

This instrument is used to measure the amount if rain that has fallen. 

rain gauge

500

• An instrument used to measure air pressure. 

• barometer

Clouds

100

What are clouds made of? You must use the correct vocabulary word 

water vapor

200

Big puffy clouds that mean good weather. They look like cotton balls piled together. 

Cumulus Clouds 

300

The other kinds of good weather clouds. They look thin and wispy, like you pulled a cotton ball apart. 

Cirrus Clouds 

400

Bad weather clouds, they look like a gray blanket low in the sky. 

Stratus Clouds 

500

• Thick, gray clouds that usually have rain or snow falling from them. 

Cumulonimbus Clouds 

Miscellaneous

100

What do we call the gases (air) that surround the Earth. 

Atmosphere

200

• A scientist who studies the weather. They predict, or forecast, the weather based on the information they collect. 

Meteorologist

300

What temperature scale do we use to measure air temperature in the United States? 

Fahrenheit 

400

What temperature scale to most other countries use to measure air temperature? 

Celsius 

500

What are 2 things we can measure using a thermometer? 

the temperature of our body, food, or air

Other

100

• The breaking down and wearing away of rock through long exposure to wind, water, heat and cold.

Weathering 

200

• The movement of weathered materials by gravity, ice, wind, and water. 

Erosion 

300

• Rocks, sand, or dirt that has been carried to a new place by water, wind, or a glacier. 

Sediment 

400

What are 2 of the 4 ways that sediment can be moved? 

water, wind, gravity, or glaciers

500

At what temperature does water freeze on the Fahrenheit scale? 

32 degrees