Clouds
What is the name of a stratus cloud that forms close to the ground?
FOG
What instrument shows you the direction the wind is blowing from?
Wind Vane
What do you call the general weather of an area over a long period of time?
Climate
What type of precipitation is chunks of ice, and can be as small as a pea or as large as a softball?
Hail
Why do we have wind?
Because the Earth's surface is heated unevenly.
What is the name of a cloud that are very white, puffy and white with flat bottoms?
Cumulus
Which instrument measures air pressure?
This ranges from stormy to very dry
Barometer
Which climates are cold and dry. They are located around the North Pole and the South pole
Polar Climate
What type of precipitation is known as ice in the form of a six-sides shape
Snow
Why is the ground temperature sometimes different from the air temperature
Because the ground can be warmer than the air around it
What types of clouds are high, feathery clouds, are made of ice crystals and may be followed by rain or snow in a few hours?
Cirrus
Which instrument measures the amount of heat in a location?
Thermometer
Which type of climate have moderate temperatures that change with the season. Precipitation varies from place to place and from season to season.
Temperate
Which type of precipitation are small pellets of ice, no more than 5 mm on diameter
Sleet
What do you call the leading edge of a moving mass of cooler air?
A cold front
What type of clouds are flat, gray, layered, cover the whole sky and can bring light rain and drizzle?
Stratus
Which instrument measures how much HUMIDITY is in the air?
Hygrometer
Which type of climates are warm, and can be wet, dry, or somewhere in between. The are found in a wide band around the Earth's equator.
Tropical climates
What instrument measures the amount of rain that has fallen in a specific location?
Rain gauge
What do you call a large "bubble" of air that has about the same characteristics of weather/temperature all through it?
Air mass
How does a cloud form?
When water vapor in the atmosphere condenses and changes into tiny water droplets.
Which instrument measures the WIND SPEED
Anemometer
What is responsible for the different climate bands?
The Earth's tilt on its axis.
What type of precipitation falls to the ground in liquid drops, about 1 mm in diameter
Drizzle
What do you call a world wide stream wind that blows from west to east
Jet stream