Clouds
Weather Facts
Weather Tools
Severe weather
Snow
100
What are clouds made of?
What is water and dust particles
100
Humidity is the amount of this in the air?
What is water or moisture
100
I measure the speed of wind
What is anemometer
100
the severity of a Hurricane is ranked using
What are numbers
100
Snowflakes get larger or smaller as they fall from the clouds?
Larger
200
Name 3 types of clouds
What is cumulous, stratus and cirrus
200
When clouds become saturated it begins to
What is rain
200
if you have a fever or to meausre the temperature of the air, use me
What is a thermometer
200
after 1979 hurricanes were named this way?
What is alternating male and female names
200
We have never observed two snowflakes that are _____.
Identical in structure
300
What type of cloud is wispy and feathery
What is cirrus
300
Any form of water that falls from the sky is called
What is precipitation
300
Feeling like the air is weighing down on you, to measure air pressure use me
What is a barometer
300
The most severe hurricane would be a category..?
What is 5
300
Although "every snowflake is unique" they have been classified into this many categories.
35 (or 39 if you count things like sleet and hail)
400
what type of cloud appears as a blanket covering the sky?
What is Stratus
400
Electrical charges in clouds can produce
What is lightning
400
Curious about how much rain fell in a certain period of time? Use me to measure it
What is a rain gauge
400
A massive wave casued by an underwater earthquake is called a ?
What is tsunami
400
The ______ in which it forms determines what shape a snowflake is.
Temperature
500
This type of cloud produces thunderstorms.
What is cumulonimbus?
500
Someone who is trained to predict the weather is called a
What is a meteorologist
500
Send me high on up to measure conditions in the upper atmosphere.
What is a weather balloon
500
Which country would most likely be affected by a typhoon?
What is Japan
500
____ophobia means "an intense fear of snow."
Chionophobia, from the Greek "chion" meaning snow.