Instruments
Predictions and Fronts
Water Cycle and Wind
Cloud Types
Miscellaneous
100
An instrument to record the amount of rainfall in a given area.
What is a rain gauge?
100
The four types of precipitation.
What is rain,snow, sleet, and hail?
100
A large body of warm or cold air.
What is an air mass?
100
High feathery clouds that usually mean a change in weather is on the way.
What are cirrus clouds?
100
The pushing of air on an object.
What is air pressure?
200
An instrument for measuring temperature.
What is a thermometer?
200
Frozen rain
What is sleet, snow or hail?
200
When water on plants, turns from a liquid to a gas during heating.
What is transpiration?
200
Thick, gray clouds that often bring rain.
What are stratus clouds?
200
This occurs along a warm front.
What is light rain fall?
300
An instrument that measures air pressure.
What is barometer?
300
A giant swirling storm that brings rain and heavy winds.
What is a hurricane?
300
The movement of air from one place to another.
What is wind?
300
Puffy, white clouds.
What are cumulus clouds?
300
In the United States, air masses and frontal systems usually move these directions.
What is west to east?
400
An instrument for measuring wind speed.
What is an anemometer
400
A storm that forms when cumulus clouds pile up and bring rain, wind, and lightening.
What is a thunderstorm?
400
Water in the form of a gas.
What is water vapor?
400
Tall cumulus clouds that bring thunderstorms.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
400
When air masses with different temperatures meet, this is formed.
What is a front?
500
An instrument that measures the direction of the wind
What is a wind vane?
500
This occurs when a fast moving cold front moves in on a warm front
What is an occluded front?
500
The process of water vapor ( a gas) changing into a liquid through cooling.
What is condensation?
500
Puffy white clouds that are located high in the sky.
What are altocumulus clouds?
500
These bring calm weather and occur when a warm air mass and a cold air mass remain over an area for days.
What is a stationary front?
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