Weather Vocabulary
The condition of the air outside.
What is weather?
The planet on which we live.
What is Earth?
A storm with lightning and thunder.
What is a thunderstorm?
This star provides heat and light for the Earth.
What is the sun?
A violent rotating column of air that usually forms a funnel shape.
What is a tornado?
A windsock is most similar to:
A) a rain gauge
B) wind vane
C) thermometer
B) wind vane
Water that falls from the sky.
What is precipitation?
The number of days it takes for the moon to go all the way around the Earth.
What is 28 days?
A storm with large amounts of snow and high winds.
What is a blizzard?
A tool that measures rain fall.
What is a rain gauge?
The season that has the most rainfall.
What is spring?
A large rotating storm with high winds that formover warm ocean waters.
What is a hurricane?
A tool that measures air pressure.
What is a barometer.
Name the seasons.
spring, summer, fall, winter
List 4 examples of precipitation.
What is rain, sleet, hail, snow.
A tool that measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?