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Measuring Weather
Wet Weather
Elements of Weather
Describing Weather
Clouds and Weather Trivia
100
This is a measure of how hot or cold something is.
What is temperature?
100
This is a group of tiny water droplets in the sky.
What is a cloud?
100
This is a star in the center of the solar system that burns gas and gives off heat and light.
What is the sun?
100
This is what the air and sky feel and look like at any time or place.
What is weather?
100

Where you should go during a tornado if you are in a school or public building

What is the lowest level of the building?

200
This is a tool to measur how hot or cold something is.
What is a thermometer?
200
This is water that falls to the ground from the clouds.
What is rain?
200
This is electricity in the clouds that appears as a bright flash of light in the sky.
What is lightning?
200
This is when there are high winds, heavy rain or snow.
What is a storm?
200

White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair-weather clouds

What are cumulus clouds?
300
This is what the weather will be like.
What is forecast?


300
This is too much water in an area than it can hold.
What is a flood?
300
This is a loud sound following lightning.
What is thunder?
300
This means without heat.
What is cold?
300

Scale used rate the damage and speed of tornadoes

What is the Fujita scale (F-scale)?

400
This is a person who studies and tells the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
400
This is frozen ice crystals that fall softly from the clouds.
What is snow?
400
This is moving air.
What is wind?
400
This is giving off heat.
What is hot?
400

Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds


What are cumulonimbus clouds?

500
Amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
500
Water overflow that is caused by large amounts of rainfall.
What is flood?
500

This is a twirling, narrow funnel of wind with speeds of 100 to 300 miles per hour that can damage anything in its path.

What is a tornado?
500
An instrument that shows wind direction.
What is a wind vane or weather vane?
500

April through June


What are the months that the most tornadoes occur?