Weather Tools
Measures humidity
What is a hygrometer?
High, thin clouds mad of ice crystals.
What are cirrus clouds?
You will find tropical climates at this latitude.
Forms when the air is above freezing from the cloud to the ground.
What is rain?
This severe weather forms over a large body of water.
What is a hurricane?
Measures wind speed
What is an anomometer?
These clouds bring thunderstorms
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
What is latitude?
Ice crystals that fall when the air is below freezing from the cloud to the ground.
What is snow?
The state of the atmosphere at a given place and time.
What is weather?
Measures air pressure
What is a barometer?
Low clouds that bring rain.
What are stratus clouds?
This climate can be found near the poles.
What is a polar climate?
This is rain that freezes BEFORE it hits the ground.
What is sleet?
This climate zone is found between polar and tropical zones.
What is temperate?
Collects and measures rain water
What are cumulus clouds?
This is how high above sea level an area is.
What is elevation?
This is the temperature necessary to form frozen precipitation.
What is freezing (or below freezing)?
This form of precipitation is very unlikely to form in Florida.
What is....snow, sleet, freezing rain....
Measures the amount of heat energy in the atmosphere.
What is a thermometer?
These clouds often appear in the summertime.
What are cirrus clouds?
This land formation has a very dry climate.
What is a desert?
This form of precipitation will form if warm air causes water to evaporate above a body of water.
What is rain?
The continuous movement of water throughout the earth.
What is the water cycle?