Weather Instruments
Types of Storms
Clouds
Weather Vocabulary
Miscellanious Weather
100
Measures air pressure
What is a barometer?
100
Form in warm, moist air masses above warm ocean waters
What is a hurricane?
100
Smooth, gray clouds that cover the whole sky. Can bring light rain and drizzle.
What are stratus clouds?
100
The force of air pressing down on Earth.
What is air pressure?
100
A mass of cold air that pushes underneath a warm mass.
What is cold front?
200
Measures wind direction
What is a wind vane?
200
Form when warm air rises and cools rapidly often along a cold front. Lightning may occur.
What is a thunderstorm?
200
White, fluffy, flat bottom. Look like pictures of things sometimes. (Hey look! I see Justin Beiber!)
What is a cumulus cloud?
200
Amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
200
A mass of warm air that pushes over a cold mass.
What is a warm front?
300
Measures how much water vapor is in the air (humidity)
What is a hygrometer?
300
Columns of dark, spinning, twisting, air
What is a tornado?
300
Feathery, clouds high in the sky. Associated with fair weather.
What is a cirrus cloud?
300
Rain, snow, sleet, hail
What is precipitation?
300
A scientist who predicts the weather.
What is meteorologist?
400
Measures precipitation.
What is a rain gauge?
400
Bring heavy snow and can last for days.
What is a blizzard?
400
Clouds that are piled high in the sky and have a flat, anvil shaped bottom. Can bring storms.
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
400
Boundary between two air masses of different temperature
What is a front?
400
Used to measure how much heat is in the atmosphere.
What is a thermometer?
500
Measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
500
Storm that can bring hail.
What is a thunderstorm?
500
Known as "thunderheads."
What is a cumulonnimbus cloud?
500
The amount of heat in the atmosphere.
What is air temperature?
500
A front that doesn't move.
What is a stationary front?
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