Clouds
Fronts and Other
Weather Instruments
Precipitation
Storms
100
These clouds are the huge storm clouds that rise high into the sky.
What are cumulo-nimbus clouds?
100
Big body of air with the same temperature and amount of moisture.
What is an air mass?
100
This weather tool measures the temperature of the air and lets us know how hot or cold it is.
What is a thermometer?
100
This form of precipitation is droplets falling to the ground.
What is rain?
100
This is the most common type of storm during the summer bringing rain and thunder.
What is a thunderstorm?
200
These are white fluffy clouds that indicate fair weather.
What are cumulus clouds?
200
This front is represented with triangles resembling icicles.
What is a cold front?
200
This weather tool shows the direction the wind is moving.
What is a wind or weather vane?
200
This powdery white form of precipitation falls to earth as water freezes in the cloud.
What is snow?
200
This storm forms on land as a funnel shaped cloud creating damaging winds and leaving destruction in its path.
What is a tornado?
300
These clouds are high in the sky and look very wispy like feathers. They indicate that there will be a change in weather soon.
What are cirrus clouds?
300
I am a scientist who studies weather.
What is a meteorologist?
300
This weather tool measures how much precipitation has fallen to the earth.
What is a rain guage?
300
Balls of ice thrown back into the cloud over and over until too heavy and falls to the ground. Some of these ice pellets can be as big as golf balls.
What is hail?
300
This storm forms over the a warm ocean and picks of speed until it hits land bringing lots of wind and rain.
What is a hurricane?
400
These layered clouds hang low in the sky and usually bring light rain, drizzle, and fog.
What are stratus clouds?
400
This front is characterized by bumps along a line.
What is a warm front?
400
This tool measures the wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
400
This form of precipitation occurs as drops of water freeze before hitting the ground.
What is sleet?
400
This is the calm center of a hurricane.
What is the eye?
500
The three main types of clouds are:
What are stratus, cumulus, and cirrus?
500
If cold air pushes into a body of warm air, this front is called...
What is a cold front?
500
Name these two tools. The first measures the air pressure to indicate a storm is coming, and the second measures the humidity or moisture in the air.
What are barometer and hygrometer?
500
This form of precipitation occurs on cold rainy days as water hits the cold surface.
What is freezing rain?
500
This part of the United States has the most tornados in a given year.
What is the mid west or Tornado Alley?
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