Weather Instruments
Clouds
Weather Vocabulary
Factors of Weather
Water Cycle
100
the instrument used for measuring temperature
What is a thermometer?
100
A visible mass of water droplets floating in the atmosphere
What is a cloud?
100
A scientist who studies weather
What is meteorologist?
100
Air that moves horizontally
What is wind?
100
Nature's way of recycling water
What is the water cycle?
200
the instrument that shows wind direction
What is a weather vane?
200
a cloud at ground level
What is fog?
200
the day-to-day conditions of a particular place and time
What is weather?
200
the amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
200
the changing of a liquid into a gas
What is evaporation?
300
the instrument that measures air pressure
What is a Barometer?
300
Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow falls from them
What are stratus clouds?
300
the general weather of an area over a long period of time
What is climate?
300
a measurement that determines how hot or cold a location is
What is temperature?
300
any form of water particles that falls from the atmosphere and reaches the ground
What is precipitation?
400
the instrument that measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
400
white, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton
What are cumulus clouds?
400
the temperature to which air must be cooled in order for water droplets to begin to condense
What is dew point?
400
the force put on a given area by the weight of the air above it
What is air pressure?
400
the process of water vapor turning into water droplets
What is condensation?
500
the instrument used to measure the moisture content in the atmosphere (humidity)
What is a hygrometer?
500
this type of cloud forms at a very high altitude out of ice crystals and have a wispy, featherlike shape
What are cirrus clouds?
500
a boundary between air masses with different temperatures
What is a front?
500
A comparison between how much water vapor is in the air and how much the air could hold at a given temperature
What is relative humidity?
500
Water that is found underground
What is ground water?
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