Weather Tools
Vocab
Water Cycle
Severe Weather
Weather Symbols
100
A thermometer is a device that measures temperature or temperature gradient.
What is a thermometer?
100
Slightly cold.
What does chilly mean?
100
Evaporation.
What is the process of water turning from a liquid to a gas?
100
An eye/center.
What does a tornado revolve around?
100
No clouds.
What does a blank circle mean?
200
An instrument measuring atmospheric pressure in forecasting the weather and determining altitude.
What is a barometer?
200
Thick water vapor very close to the ground.
What is fog?
200
Precipitation.
What is rain,snow and sleet all forms of?
200
Hurricane Katrina
What hurricane devastated New Orleans?
200
completely cloudy/overcast.
What does a filled in circle mean?
300
An instrument for measuring the speed of the wind, or of any current of gas.
What is anemometer?
300
How cold or warm the air is.
What is temperature?
300
The draining away of water (or substances carried in it) from the surface of an area of land.
What is runoff?
300
A tropical storm.
What is another name for a hurricane?
300
Fog.
What do three horizontal lines on top of each other mean?
400
An instrument for measuring the humidity of the air or a gas.
What is a Hygrometer?
400
Moisture in the air.
What is humidity?
400
Water that collects as droplets on a cold surface when humid air is in contact with it.
What is condensation?
400
A extended period of months or years when a region notes a deficiency in its water supply whether surface or underground water.
What is a drought?
400
A blue line with triangles facing the way the front is headed.
What signifies a cold front?
500
An instrument for measuring high temperatures.
What is a pyrometer?
500
Rain that freezes as it falls.
What is sleet?
500
4.
How many stages are in the water cycle?
500
The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands in the 1930s.
What is the Dust Bowl?
500
A is a boundary between two different air masses, neither of which is strong enough to replace the other.
What is a stationary front?
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