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Clouds
Weather Trivia
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100
This tool measures the direction of the wind.
What is a weather vane?
100
Where two air masses collide is called a _________.
What is a Front?
100
This cloud is featureless and means "blanket".
What is Stratus Cloud?
100
High air pressure brings this kind of weather.
What is Fair Weather?
100
This forms when water evaporates into the air and then cools.
What are Clouds?
200
This tool measures the amount of humidity or moisture in the air.
What is a Hygrometer?
200
This is the layer of the atmosphere where weather occurs.
What is the Troposphere?
200
This cloud name means "pile" and usually brings fair weather.
What is Cumulus Cloud?
200
Low air pressure brings this kind of weather.
What is Precipitation?
200
When a cold air mass crashes into a warm air mass, this kind of front is formed.
What is a Cold Front?
300
This tool is used by meteorologists to determine the air pressure.
What is a Barometer?
300
Weather conditions, such as temperature and precipitation, for a certain area over a long period of time.
What is Climate?
300
These clouds float highest in the sky and are made of ice crystals.
What is Cirrus Cloud?
300
TRUE or FALSE: Warm air rises to the top because it has less mass.
What is TRUE?
300
Meteorologists use this tool to determine the outside air temperature.
What is a Thermometer?
400
This tool tells the speed of the wind.
What is an Anemometer?
400
A scientist who studies weather.
What is a Meteorologist?
400
This cloud name means "dark pile". These clouds usually bring heavy precipitation.
What is Cumulonimbus Cloud?
400
This is how long it takes the Earth to revolve around the Sun.
What is 1 year?
400
TRUE or FALSE: Cold air has more water molecules than warm air.
What is TRUE?
500
This tool tells the amount of precipitation that has fallen.
What is a Rain Gauge?
500
The blanket of gases that surround the Earth.
What is the Atmosphere?
500
This kind of cloud usually brings a steady, gentle form of precipitation.
What is Stratus Cloud?
500
The imaginary, tilted line that goes through the center of the Earth.
What is Earth's axis?
500
The name of the organization, paid for by U.S.A. tax dollars, that monitors our country's weather.
What is The National Weather Service?
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