Sky High
These fluffy, white clouds look like floating cotton balls and usually mean fair weather?
a. Cumulus
b. Cirrcus
C. Stratus
What is a. Cumulus Clouds
You use this tool to see how hot or cold it is outside?
a. barometer
b. thermometer
c. anemometer
What is b. thermometer
This is the sound caused by lightning heating up the air
What is Thunder.
This is the giant star that provides the energy to power the water cycle.
What is the sun.
If you hear thunder while playing outside, you should go to this place immediately.
What is indoors (or a safe building/car)?
This is what we call water falling from the sky in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail?
Precipitation
What is a spinning tool with "cups" measures how fast the wind is blowing?
a. barometer
b. thermometer
c. anemometer
What is c. anemometer.
This spinning, funnel-shaped cloud reaches down from a storm to touch the ground.
What is a tornado.
This happens when liquid water warms up and turns into an invisible gas called water vapor.
What is evaporation.
This beautiful multi-colored arc appears when sunlight shines through raindrops.
What is a rainbow.
This type of cloud is low, grey, and covers the sky like a giant flat blanket?
a. Cumulus
b. Cirrus
c. Stratus
What is c. Stratus Cloud
A meteorologist uses this "bucket-like" tool to measure how many inches of rain fell during a storm.
What is a rain gauge.
These giant storms form over warm ocean waters and have a calm "eye" in the center.
What is a hurricane.
This is the process where water vapor cools down and turns back into liquid drops to form clouds.
What is condensation.
This is the name for a scientist who studies and predicts the weather.
What is a meteorologist.
This "frozen rain" forms when water droplets are tossed up and down inside a thrunderstorm until they freeze into balls of ice.
What is hail
This tool, often shaped like a rooster or an arrow, shows which direction the wind is coming from.
What is a weather vane.
This is a winter storm with very strong winds and lots of blowing snow that makes it hard to see.
What is a blizzard.
Most of Earth's water (about 97%) is found here.
What is the Ocean.
During a "tornado watch" it means a tornado is possible; during a "tornado _______" it means one has been spotted and you must take cover.
What is a warning.
These are thin, wispy clouds found very high in the sky, made mostly of ice crystals.
a. Cumulus
b. Cirrus
c. Stratus
What is b. Cirrus
This scientific instrument measures air pressure, which helps tell us if a storm is coming.
a. barometer
b. thermometer
c. anemometer
What is a. barometer
Tornadoes are most likely to occur in this central regain of the United States.
What is Tornado Alley.
This is the term for water that flows over the ground into a river or stream instead of soaking into the soil.
What is runoff.
This is the layer or gases that surrounds the Earth and creates our weather.
What is the atmosphere.