Instruments and Other
An instrument that shows the direction wind is blowing from.
What is a wind vane?
Any type of solid or liquid water that falls from the atmosphere and reaches the ground.
What is precipitation?
Water vapor in the atmosphere
What is humidity?
Formed from condensed water vapor or ice crystals.
What are clouds?
The weight of the air.
What is air pressure?
An instrument that measures the speed of the wind.
What is an anemometer?
Forms when water droplets in the clouds join together to form larger drops.
What is rain?
Forms from condensed water vapor or ice crystals.
What forms a cloud?
Thin, wispy clouds sometimes called "mares' tales"; thin, curly-looking clouds seen high in the sky.
What are Cirrus clouds?
The measurement of the distance above sea level.
What is altitude?
An instrument used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
Occurs when raindrops fall through air that is below freezing; the drops freeze on their way to the earth and land as tiny ice pellets.
What is sleet?
Names of clouds that produce precipitation.
What does it mean when nimbo is added to the name of a cloud?
Look like flat blankets and are usually the lowest clouds in the sky. (fog)
What are Stratus clouds?
The condition of the atmosphere at any moment in time.
What is weather?
A funnel-shaped cloud of swirling winds that reached down to the ground.
What is a tornado?
Forms when ice crystals in the clouds join together and fall to the earth.
What is snow?
Thin blanket of gases and dust particles that surround the earth.
What is the atmosphere?
Fluffy, large, cottonlike clouds with flat bottoms. Mostly form in the middle of the troposphere.
What are Cumulus clouds?
A large body of air that has about the same temperature and moisture.
What is an air mass?
A storm with spiraling winds that forms over the ocean.
What is hurricane?
(2 part question) 1. Usually falls when weather is warm on the ground; 2. raindrops that are pushed up over and over again into tall clouds and freeze before falling to the earth.
When does hail usually fall? What is hail?
The layer of the atmosphere in which weather occurs?
What is the troposphere?
When nimbo/nimbus is added to the name of a cloud?
What makes up the name of clouds that produce precipitation.
Weather __1____ means that the conditions are right for a type of severe weather but the weather is not currently happening. Weather __2_____ is when the storm begins and people report having seen severe weather like a tornado.
What is watch and warning?