Weather tools
It's the weather tool used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
The name for any type of water that falls from the sky.
What is precipitation?
Is the name for a tall column of air that has the same temperature and humidity.
What is an air mass?
It is the name give to the scientists who study and report on weather.
Who is a meteorologist?
It is the name for fluffy white clouds with flat bases that bring fair weather.
What are cumulus clouds?
What is the anemometer?
It is the process by which liquid water turns into a gas.
What is evaporation?
It is the name given for the line where two different types of air masses meet.
What is a front?
It two different places that you can get a weather report.
What are the newspaper, on television, on the internet...?
It is the name for the big, thick, dark clouds that usually bring thunderstorms.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
It is the weather tool used to measure air pressure.
What is the barometer?
It is the part of the water cycle that describes liquid water resting in lakes, rivers, oceans and puddles.
What is collection?
Describe the type of weather usually found at a front.
It is two different things you can find on a weather map.
What are temperatures, high/low pressure systems, precipitation, fronts...?
What is it keeps our planet warm, or it blocks harmful rays from the sun?
It is the weather tool used to measure the amount of precipitation.
What is a rain gauge?
It is the name given to the process of water vapor turning back into liquid water.
(Hint: It forms clouds!)
What is condensation?
What is a tropical land air mass?
It is the name given to the report of water levels on the Mississippi River.
What is the river stage or flood stage?
It is two of the main gases found in air.
What are oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide and water vapor?
This is the weather tool used to measure the direction the wind is coming from.
(Hint: found on the tops of barns!)
What is a weather vane?
It is the source of energy that keeps the water cycle going.
What is the Sun?
It is the name given to a cold, wet air mass.
What is a polar ocean air mass?
It is the name given to the book that collects weather data over the past 200 years.
What is the almanac?
It is the name given to the problem we are currently facing of a planet that is becoming too warm, with too much greenhouse gas build-up.
What is global climate change?