Wild Weather
Clouds
Weather Tools
Water Cycle
Precipitation
200
Giant tropical storms that form over warm ocean waters that produce heavy rainfall and super strong wings.
What are hurricanes?
200
Flat clouds that look like a blanket and often cause cloudy weather.
What are stratus clouds?
200
I measure the direction of wind.
What is a weather vane?
200
Water vapor changes into droplets to form clouds.
What is Condensation?
200
The most common for of precipitation that happens in the spring season.
Rain
400
A violent rotating column of air that can destroy buildings.
What is a tornado?
400
Thin wispy clouds that often bring sunny weather.
What are cirrus clouds?
400
Used to measure the air pressure around us.
What is a barometer?
400
Droplets fall down to earth in the form of snow, sleet, hail and rain, and then the process repeats.
What is Precipitation?
400
Ice crystals that fall in light white flakes to the ground when the outdoor temperature falls below 32 degrees Fahrenheit.
What is snow?
600
A shaking of the earth's plates that happens near cracks in the earth's crust.
What are earthquakes?
600
Large dark clouds that often bring stormy weather.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
600
If you have a fever or to measure the temperature of the air or water, use me.
What is a thermometer?
600
Water is stored to drive the water cycle in puddles, lakes, rivers, streams, and oceans.
What is water storage or collection?
600
Name 4 types of precipitation
What are rain, sleet, hail, or snow.
800
A storm with thunder and lightning that usually produces gusty winds and are produced by cumulonimbus clouds.
What are thunderstorms?
800
Fluffy white clouds that look like pillows and bring sunny weather.
What are cumulus clouds?
800
Used to measure the speed of wind.
What is an anemometer?
800
When the sun causes liquid to turn into the gas phase.
What is Evaportation?
800
Another word for freezing rain.
What is sleet?
1000
Lots of heavy rain or an overflow of water that submerges land that is usually dry.
What are floods?
1000
Can be considered a type of low-lying cloud (that you can touch and walk through) making it difficult to see.
What is fog?
1000
Curious about how much rain fell in a certain period of time? Use me to measure it.
What is a rain gauge?
1000
The process by which plants perspire and release moisture into the atmosphere from their leaves in the form of water vapor.
What is Transpiration?
1000
Pellets of frozen rain (ice balls) that precipitate from cumulonimbus clouds.
What is hail?