Weather Instruments
This instrument measures the amount of precipitation that has fallen.
What is a rain gauge?
This cloud is fluffy and white.
What is a cumulus cloud?
Examples of this term are rain, snow, sleet, and hail.
What is precipitation?
We learned this air property from our balloon experiment.
What is air has weight?
This is the direction wind typically blows in our area.
What is west to east?
This weather instrument measures air temperature.
What is a thermometer?
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
This is term for water in its gas state.
What is water vapor/gas?
We learned this air property from our experiment with the paper towel in the cup of water pushed down in the container of water.
What is air takes up space?
This storm is made up of lightening, thunder, rain, clouds, and wind.
What is a lightening storm?
This weather instrument measures the different wind is coming from.
What is a wind vane?
This cloud spreads across the sky.
What is a stratus cloud?
This process is the collection of water vapor.
What is condensation?
We learned this air property from the experiment with water in the cup flipped over holding an index card.
What is air exerts pressure?
This storm has heavy snow, ice, and cold tempatures.
What is a blizzard?
This instrument measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
This cloud type is dark and spread across the whole sky. It produces long rain storms.
What is a stratonimbus cloud?
This process is when water changes from a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
We learned that water bonds together like in a cloud in our penny experiment. This process is called...
What is condensation?
This storm has heavy rainfall.
What is a flood?
This instrument measures humidity?
What is a hygrometer?
This is a low-lying cloud that we could actually feel since it forms close to earth.
What is fog?
This weather instrument measures the speed of wind.
What is an anemometer?
We created this in our cups by putting warm water in and trapping it with a lid.
What is fog?
This storm has extremely strong wind, clouds, and rain.
What is a tornado or hurricane?