Clouds & Fronts
Weather Tools
Wind and Air Pressure
Storms
Mystery
100
This front may cause thunderstorms.
What is a cold front?
100
This tool measures temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100
The warmest air on the planet is located on this line of latitude.
What is the equator?
100
This kind of air fuels hurricanes.
What is warm air?
100
What the atmosphere is like in a given time and place (daily or hourly).
What is weather?
200
This front causes days or weeks of wet weather.
What is a warm front?
200
A cylinder that collects rain and snow that falls from the sky.
What is a rain gauge?
200
This path of fast-moving air helps airplanes get from the West coast to the East coast without using too much gasoline.
What is the jet stream?
200
El Nino and La Nina are patches of ocean to the West of this continent.
What is South America?
200
The long term weather patterns in a region.
What is climate?
300
These types of clouds create horrible weather and are located in the lower atmosphere.
What are nimbostratus clouds?
300
When air pressure is low, the needle on this tool falls toward "rain." When air pressure is high, the needle of this tool points to "fair and dry."
What is a barometer?
300
Wind is caused by changes in this.
What is air pressure?
300
El Nino causes this kind of weather.
What is unseasonably warm and wet weather? What are hurricanes?
300
A scientist who studies and predicts the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
400
Fluffy clouds called _________ fill the sky on pleasant days.
What are cumulus clouds?
400
The faster the cups spin on an anemometer, the faster this is happening.
What is the wind is blowing?
400
High pressure causes this kind of weather.
What is sunny and clear weather?
400
These warm the air above and may cause a hurricane.
What is warm ocean currents?
400
When cold air and warm air meet to create fog and light wind.
What is a stationary front?
500
These clouds are uniform gray and fill the sky, almost like fog.
What are stratus clouds?
500
If you swing this above your head and then read both thermometers, you will know the humidity.
What is a sling psychrometer?
500
This is what warm air does and is one part of a convection cell (which causes wind).
What is rises?
500
A warm air mass is blocked by two pockets of cold air, which causes this type of weather.
What is very cold weather?
500
The opposite of the weather in Charlotte because it is on the other side of the equator.
What is the weather in Argentina?
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