Weather Instruments
Water Cycle
5 Variables of Weather
Types of Weather
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The instrument we use to measure the temperature outside.
What is a thermometer?
100
This is what we call condensed water vapor that falls from the sky in different forms.
What is precipitation?
100
The measurement of how hot or cold it is at any given time.
What is temperature?
100
This type of weather results from a collision of warm moist air and cool dry air.
What is a tornado?
100
The average weather conditions in an area over time.
What is climate?
200
The instrument that measures the air pressure in your area.
What is a barometer?
200
When liquid water turns into a gas and floats up into the atmosphere.
What is evaporation?
200
The level of moisture in the air.
What is humidity?
200
These tropical cyclones form near the equator, and use warm moist air as fuel.
What is a hurricane?
200
Weather occurs in this part of the atmosphere.
What is the troposphere?
300
We use these things in space to track and monitor weather patterns.
What is a weather satellite?
300
When the water vapor in the air turns into clouds.
What is condensation?
300
The movement of air across the Earth is called this.
What is wind?
300
If the temperature outside is below 32 degrees, we tend to see this type of precipitation fall from the sky.
What is snow?
300
The wind we feel in Colorado that moves West to East across the United States.
What are the westerlies?
400
News stations use this to track weather and sometimes tornadoes.
What is the Doppler radar?
400
When water comes from mountains by the way of rivers, and flows into ponds, lakes, and oceans.
What is runoff?
400
There is about 12 pounds per square inch of this pressing down on you at all times. (15 psi at sea level)
What is air pressure?
400
This thing comes from severe storms, and can be 53,540 degrees. (Hotter than the sun).
What is lightning?
400
In the egg in a jar experiment, what cause the egg to shoot into the bottle?
What is high pressure going to low pressure?
500
What instrument measures wind speed?
What is an anemometer?
500
The process when water evaporates out of plants through their leaves.
What is transpiration?
500
News stations try to predict different types of this during the week. Hint: Sometimes they will predict heavy snow which result in snow days.
What is precipitation?
500
This type of air pressure results in (typically) bad weather.
What is low pressure?
500
Moving air creates this type of pressure.
What is low pressure?
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