Name That Instrument
An instrument for measuring temperature.
What is a thermometer?
The natural movement of the air.
What is wind?
Energy that comes from the sun.
What is heat?
A prediction of coming weather.
What is a forecast?
A destructive vortex of violently rotating winds.
What is a tornado?
An instrument used for showing the direction of the wind.
What is a wind vane?
The direction in which air travels when it is heated.
What is up?
The area where the sun heats the earth the most.
What is the equator?
A device that carries weather instruments into the air to send back information about the weather.
What is a weather balloon?
An overflowing of a large amount of water over what is normally dry land.
What is a flood?
A device for measuring the amount of rain or snow which falls over a period of time.
What is a rain gauge?
The condition of air that leads to good weather?
What is high air pressure?
The material which absorbs the most solar energy (according to class experiment).
What is dirt?
A technology used to locate precipitation (snow and rain)
What is a weather radar?
A severe snowstorm with high winds and low visibility.
What is a blizzard?
An instrument for measuring the speed of the wind.
What is an anemometer?
The condition of air which leads to bad weather.
What is low air pressure.
The hottest place on earth.
What is Death Valley, Libya.
A device that orbits the earth and takes pictures of clouds to see how they are moving.
What is a weather satellite?
A rapidly rotating storm system originating in the tropics.
What is a hurricane?
An instrument for measuring air pressure.
What is a barometer?
The extreme weather even that records the highest wind speeds.
What is a tornado?
The result of the uneven heating of earth's surface.
What is air movement?
Where a muskrat builds its lodge if the winter will be long.
What is the middle of the lake?
A period of abnormally low rainfall, leading to a shortage of water.
What is a drought?