Clouds
Extreme Weather
Water Cycle
Measuring Weather
Miscellaneous
100

What type of weather would you expect from cumulonimbus clouds?

Thunderstorms and hail


100

A storm with thunder and lightning and typically also heavy rain or hail.


Thunderstorm
100

What step of the water cycle is liquid water falling from the clouds?

Precipitation

100

What is the weather instrument below? What does it measure?

Thermometer-measures temperature

100

The day-to-day temperature, clouds, humidty, and air pressure in a specific location.

Weather

200

What type of cloud looks like fluffy white cotton balls? What type of weather is associated with this cloud?

Cumulus

Fair weather

200

A rapidly rotating column of air that extends from a thunderstorm to the ground. Wind speeds can reach 400 kilometers (km) per hour or more in a tornado.

Tornado
200

What are the 4 types of precipitation?

Rain, snow, sleet, hail

200

What is the weather instrument below? What does it measure?


Weather vane-measures wind direction

200

The average temperature, clouds, humidty, and air pressure in a specific location over a long period of time.

Climate

300

What type of cloud looks like a grey blanket covering the sky? 

What type of weather is associated with this cloud?

Stratus 

Light rain, sleet, or snow

300

A severe tropical storm that produces high winds and flooding in the Atlantic Ocean.


Hurricane

300

What part of the water cycle involves thermal energy from the sun turning liquid water into water vapor?

Evaporation

300

What is the weather instrument below? What does it measure?


Rain gauge-measures the amount of precipitation

300

A person who studies the weather is called a _________________________.

Meterologist

400

What type of cloud is feathery and wispy?

What type of weather is associated with this cloud?

Cirrus

Fair weather, but they can turn into rain clouds

400

A less-than-normal amount of rain or snow over a period of time.


Drought

400

What part of the water cycle involves precipitation collecting into ground water and natural bodies of water?

Accumulation

400

What is the instrument picture below? What does it measure?


Anemometer-measures wind speed

400

What weather is caused by high pressure?

What weather is caused by low pressure?

High=happy weather, dry, cool

Low=lousy weather, storms, wet

500

Which type of clouds would you see during extreme weather?


Hint: There are two answers!

Cumulonimbus and stratus
500

A series of waves caused by an underwater earthquake, volcano, or landslide.

Tsunami

500

What part of the water cycle has water vapor rising into the atmosphere, cooling, and turning back into its liquid state?

Condensation

500

What is the weather instrument below? What does it measure? **Hint: Not a thermometer


Barometer-measures air/atmospheric pressure


500

A type of precipitation distinct from snow, hail and freezing rain; when snow melts and then refreezes.


Sleet

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