Climate Zones
This zone is almost always cold, has mostly snow and only has two season (winter/summer)
What is the Polar Zone
This instrument measures the speed of the wind.
What is an anemometer?
This cloud is a cloud that forms close to the ground.
What is fog?
The part of the water cycle where water vapor changes into a liquid
What is Condensation?
When there has been little or no precipitation.
What is a drought?
This zone is almost always hot, has downpours of rain, and has two seasons (wet/dry)
What is the tropical zone?
This instrument measure how hot or cold the outside air is.
What is a thermometer?
This cloud is wide and looks like a blanket over the earth. They are often gray.
What are stratus clouds?
When the water changes from a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
Large chunks of ice that fall from the sky, sometimes even in warm weather.
What is hail?
We live in this zone.
What is the temperate zone?
This instrument measure how much rain has fallen.
What is a rain gauge?
Thin, wispy, high clouds in the sky. Thye look like horses tails.
What is Cirrus clouds?
Water that falls from the sky is called....
What is precipitation?
Moving air is called this.
What is wind?
This zone has four seasons: winter, spring, summer, fall.
What is the temperate zone?
This instrument tells you the direction that the wind is blowing.
What is a weathervane?
These are collections of very tiny water droplets or ice crystals.
What are clouds?
When water moves from the earth to the sky and then back to the earth again is it called something. What is that something?
What is the water cycle?
This has a lot of lightening, heavy rain, and strong winds.
What is a thunderstorm?
The equator runs through this zone.
What is the tropical zone?
This is the name of the person who tells and predicts the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
This cloud is fluffy, cottonlike. It means the weather is fair.
What are cumulus clouds?
This is a pattern of weather in an area for a long period of time.
What is Climate?
This storm starts over the water and can do a lot damage when it comes on shore.
What is a hurricane?