Sky
What is the blanket of air that surrounds the earth?
atmosphere
What is a large, swirling storm that forms over the warm ocean water and brings torrential rain and winds over 74 miles per hour?
Hurricanes
What is precipitation?
Rain
What is used to measure temperature?
Thermometer
Weather
What are clouds made of?
water droplets
What is a tornado?
column of air with wind speeds up to several hundreds miles an hour
What part of the water cycle is when water vapor cools down and turns into water droplets
condensation
What 2 degree scales are on a thermometer?
celsius and fahrenheit
Climate
Thunder
How are hurricanes categorized?
cat 1-5.
What part of the water cycle does water warm up and rise?
Evaporation
What is the tool that collects and measures the amount of rain or snow that falls at a certain place of a period of time?
rain gauge
What is the movement of air over the earth's surface?
Wind
What is the sudden charge of energy that happens when positive and negative charges collide during a thunderstorm?
Lightning
What is the area of the U.S. that receives lots of tornadoes every year?
Tornado alley
water droplets get too heavy to stay in clouds and then fall
What are the people called that study the atmosphere, especially weather?
meteorologists
What is the instrument called that gauges the direction of wind?
wind sock
What are the 3 types of clouds?
Cumulus, cirrus, stratus
What is the calmest part of a hurricane called?
Eye
What are the 4 stages of the water cycle?
evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection
What is the system of rating wind strength called?
Beaufort Scale
Which clouds are usually low hanging, gray that cover the whole sky?
Stratus