Clouds
What are clouds made of?
Water vapor that gets condensed.
What is evaporate?
Energy from the sun warms the water on the earth causing it to do this.
What is a weather vane?
This measures the wind direction.
An extreme amount of water at one time.
What is a flood?
Which heats and cools faster: Land or Water?
Land
Name 3 types of clouds
What is cumulous, stratus and cirrus
What are the water vapors?
Clouds are made up of this.
What is a weather vane?
This measures the wind direction.
A violent storm with strong winds that is usually formed over land.
What is a tornado?
Why are air temperatures usually higher in the afternoon than in the morning?
When the sun rises the surface of the earth is heated and the temperature rises. The surface is warmer around midday. The air takes longer to heat up and temperatures are highest in the middle of the afternoon.
What type of cloud is wispy and feathery?
Cirrus
What is fog?
Fog is clouds close to ground.
What is a rain gauge?
This measures the amount of precipitation.
A tropical storm that forms over water.
What is a hurricane?
Why are some surfaces warmer than other?
Different surfaces absorb different amount of light energy.
What type of cloud appears as a blanket covering the sky?
Stratus
What is precipitation?
rain, snow, hail, and sleet are all forms of precipitation.
It measures the temperature...hot or cold.
What is a thermometer?
A naturally occurring electrostatic discharge that happends during a storm.
What is lightning?
Why does the earth surface not heat evenly?
Sunlight hits the earth's surface at different angles.
Which clouds are puffy and you see in nice weather?
Cumulous
What is condense?
To condense means to change from a gas to a liquid. As warm moist air rises, it begins to cool, which causes the water vapor in the air to do this.
A wind sock.
What is another tool that measures wind direction....not a weather vane?
The state of the atmoshphere at a place and time as regards to heat, dryness, sunshine, wind and rain.
What is weather?
What is the pressing of air on earth called?
It is called air pressure.