Weather Basics
The tool is used to measure temperature
What is thermometer?
These clouds are big, white, and puffy like cotton balls.
What are cumulus clouds?
This season comes after winter.
What is spring?
These icy balls can fall from the sky during a storm.
What is hail?
This tool shows which way the wind is blowing.
What is a weather vane?
This gas, made by plants during photosynthesis, is what humans and animals need to breathe.
What is Oxygen?
This type of storm has strong winds that spin in a circle over land.
What is tornado?
This season has the shortest days and longest nights.
What is winter?
A drought happens when we don't get enough of this.
What is rain?
This tool measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
This tool is used to measure how fast the wind is blowing.
What is an anemometer?
This storm forms over the ocean and brings heavy rain and strong winds.
What is a hurricane?
This is the season when leaves change color and fall.
What is autumn (or fall)?
This type of storm drops heavy snow and strong winds.
What is a blizzard?
This event makes thunder when it heats the air quickly.
What is lightning?
This invisible force pulls raindrops down to Earth.
What is gravity?
These tall, dark clouds make thunderstorms.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
Earth has seasons because it does this while orbiting the sun.
What is tilting on its axis?
This scale is used to measure hurricane strength.
What is the Saffir-Simpson Scale?
This colorful arc appears in the sky after rain.
What is a rainbow?
This is the difference between weather and climate.
What is weather is daily, and climate is long-term?
This part of a hurricane is calm and clear.
What is the eye?
This is the day of the year when day and night are equal in length.
What is the equinox?
This scale is used to measure tornado strength.
What is the Enhanced Fujita (EF) Scale?
This was the fastest wind speed ever recorded on Earth (253 mph during Cyclone Olivia in 1996)
What is 253 miles per hour?