Weather Words 1
A measure of how hot or cold something is.
What is TEMPERATURE?
A tool used to measure temperature.
What is THERMOMETER?
Liquid precipitation in the form of water drops that falls from clouds for several hours.
What is RAIN?
A storm that always has lightning and thunder, often accompanied by rain, hail, and high winds.
What is a THUNDERSTORM?
the kind of clouds that announce nice weather
What is a cumulus?
A hard to see layer of water that forms in freezing temperatures
What is a Ice?
A tool used to take pictures of weather changes from space
What is a satellite?
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is HUMIDITY?
It begins as a funnel cloud with spinning columns of air that drop down from a severe thunderstorm. Characterized by spinning winds, up to 300 miles per hour, which can lift houses into the air and rip trees from the ground.
What is a TORNADO?
A visible collection of tiny water droplets floating in the air above the surface of the Earth.
What are CLOUDS?
A cloud on the ground that reduces visibility.
What is FOG?
building where scientists collect data about the weather
what is a weather station?
The condition of the air at a particular time and place. How the air moves, and describes anything it might be carrying such as rain, snow, or clouds. Thunder, lightning, rainbows, haze and other special events are all part of this.
What is WEATHER?
It results from days of heavy rain and/or melting snows, when rivers rise and go over their banks.
What is a FLOOD?
An enormous and very hot spark of electricity produced by thunderstorms.
What is LIGHTNING?
Precipitation that is composed of white ice crystals that fall from clouds.
What is SNOW?
A compass is a tool used to describe these 4 directions of wind
What is north, east, west, south?
The not real line that separates the earth in 2 hemispheres
What is the equator?
An intense storm with swirling winds up to 150 miles per hour. Usually 1,000-5,000 times larger than tornadoes and starts in the ocean
What is a HURRICANE?
A layer of gases surrounding a planet.
What is the ATMOSPHERE?
General name for water in any form falling from clouds. This includes rain, drizzle, hail, snow and sleet.
What is PRECIPITATION?
the units scientists use to measure how hot/cold is the air.
What is Celsius or Fahrenheit ?
A scientist who studies and predicts the weather.
What is a METEOROLOGIST?
a belt of clouds that circles the earth around the equator and is the cause of heavy amounts of rain
What is ITCZ?
Caused by the reflection and refraction (bending) of sunlight passing through raindrops. They are one of the most common but most spectacular sky displays.
What is a RAINBOW?