Tools
Water Cycle
Clouds
Storms
Precipitation
100
Measures the direction of the wind
Wind vane
100
rain, snow, sleet or hail
precipitation
100
This cloud forms near the ground
fog
100
storms associated with thunder and lightning
thunderstorms 
100
precipitation that happens when growing cloud droplets become too heavy to remain in the cloud
rain
200
Measures the amount of precipitation 
rain gauge
200
Water vapor changing to liquid
condensation
200
These are massive thunderstorm clouds
cumulonimbus 
200
these storms form over the ocean and have a calm spot in the middle 
hurricanes 
200
ice crystals that have collected with each other as they fall to the ground 
snow
300
measures air temperature
Thermometer 
300
liquid becoming water vapor
evaporation
300
these clouds cover the sky in a sheet of gray.  Smooth and gray =( 
stratus
300
violent funnel shaped storms
tornadoes 
300
frozen raindrops that bounce on impact with a surface 
sleet
400
Measures wind speed 
Anemometer
400
this invisible gas is formed during evaporation
water vapor
400
these are big a fluffy white clouds associated with fair weather 
cumulus
400
A hurricane begins as this storm 
tropical depression/ tropical storm 
400
round pieces of ice that can fall as large as a softball
hail
500
Measures air pressure
Barometer
500
This provides the energy needed for water to move through the water cycle 
the Sun 
500
feathery like clouds that are made up of ice crystals 
cirrus 
500
A tornado is called this until it touches the ground 
funnel cloud 
500
precipitation that freezes with any surface that is below freezing 
freezing rain 
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