Weather Instruments
The Water Cycle
Clouds
Weather or Climate
Vocabulary
100
Measures air temperature
What is a thermometer?
100
Provides energy that evaporates water and heats land.
What is the sun?
100
The three main types of clouds.
What is cirrus, cumulus, and stratus?
100
The temperature is currently 3 degrees Celsius.
What is weather?
100
The largest body of water on the Earth.
What is the ocean?
200
Measures wind direction
What is a wind vane?
200
The process in which liquid water becomes a gas (water vapour).
What is evaporation?
200
This type of cloud is best described as fluffy lower clouds that often "grow" during sunny days (these clouds usually mean fair weather)
What is cumulus?
200
We average 200 inches of snow each year.
What is the climate?
200
Water that flows back into the oceans, lakes, and rivers.
What is run-off?
300
Measures amount of rain fall
What is a rain gauge?
300
The process in which water (in the form of snow, sleet, or hail) falls from the clouds in the sky.
What is precipitation?
300
This type of cloud is best described as high wispy clouds that are made of ice crystals.
What is cirrus?
300
In Coaldale, August is usually the warmest month of the year.
What is climate?
300
The process by which water moves through the Earth and the atmosphere.
What is the water cycle?
400
Measures air pressure
What is a barometer?
400
The process in which water in the atmosphere changes from a gas into a liquid.
What is condensation?
400
This type of cloud produces thunderstorms.
What is cumulonimbus?
400
The day to day condition of the atmosphere.
What is weather?
400
The percentage of Earth that is covered by ocean.
What is 75%?
500
Measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
500
The process in which some water within plants evaporates into the atmosphere.
What is transpiration?
500
The word means "precipitation producing cloud"
What is nimbus or nimbo?
500
A pattern of weather over a long period of time.
What is climate?
500
A person who studies weather and climate.
What is a meteorologist?
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