Weather
Vocabulary
Weather
Tools
Map
Symbols
Fronts and
Air Masses
Extra
100
The blanket of air that surrounds the Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
100
This tools measure the how hot or cold the air is.
What is a thermometer?
100
This symbols is used to indicate a thunderstorm
What is a lightning bolt?
100
A boundary between two air masses
What is a front?
100
List two ways to stay safe during severe weather
What is stay inside, don't do outside, stay away from doors and windows, seek shelter immediately.
200
Weather occurs in this layer of the atmosphere.
What is the troposphere?
200
This tool measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
200
This symbol is used to indicate a warm front.
Red half circles?
200
Fronts tend to move from ___ to ___.
What is west to east?
200
High pressure usually brings this
What is fair weather with clear and sunny skies?
300
Amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
300
This tool tell us the direction the wind is moving.
What is a wind vane or wind sock?
300
These symbols are used to indicate air pressure masses
What are H (blue) and L (red)?
300
Story and sever weather are a result of this.
Low pressure and a cold front
300
Elements that are used in determining weather
What are humidity, air pressure, temperature, and precipitation?
400
The condition of the atmosphere at a certain time and place
What is weather?
400
This tool measures the amount of air pressure.
What is a barometer?
400
This symbol is used to indicate that it is raining
What is a water droplet?
400
Steady rain for days is a result of this.
Low pressure and a stationary front
400
The state in which most of Earth's water is found
What is the liquid state of matter?
500
I am am a scientist that studies weather.
What is a meteorologist?
500
This tool measures humidity.
What is a hygrometer?
500
This symbol is used to indicate partly sunny or partly cloudy
What is sun and clouds?
500
A warm air mass that overtakes and pushes into a cold air mass, resulting in light and steady rain is...
What is a warm front?
500
An air mass that forms over warm water is...
What is warm and wet?
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