Weather Words 1
Pieces of Information
What is data?
Average weather condition of a region year after year.
What is climate?
Usual, average
What is typical?
The preferred home or environment where needs are met.
What is a habitat?
Where food is ground to minute particles by acid and small grains of sand.
What is the gizzard?
Describes the condition of the air outdoors such as temperature, cloud cover, wind speed, and rainfall
What is weather?
Determines the direction of the wind.
Measures the wind speed
What is an anemometer?
Pencil like tunnels
What are burrows?
Section or part, observed as rings
What is a segment?
How hot or cold something is.
What is temperature?
Measures the air temperature in fahrenheit.
What is a thermometer?
Measures air pressure.
Little piles made up of the waste products of an earthworm's digestion.
What are castings?
The predictable sequence of growth of an organism.
What is the life cycle?
The amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
Measures the amount of rainfall.
What is a rain gauge?
What is a weather balloon?
Thin-walled sac where food is stored.
What is the crop?
An animal lacking a backbone.
What is an invertebrate?
Measures the amount of water vapor or humidity.
What is a hygrometer?
What is a weather satellite?
You could see this city from the top of the Blue Hills weather observatory.
What is Boston?
Known under various common names such as red wigglers
What is Eisenia Fetida?
The portion of the head which serves as a small shelf or lip.
What is the prostomium?