Tools
What instrument measures temperature?
What is a thermometer?
What type of cloud is fluffy and white, often seen on sunny days?
What are cumulus clouds?
What is the term for water vapor in the air?
What is humidity?
What technology is released into the sky to gather information about the weather and send it to weather stations?
What is a weather balloon?
What does it mean when birds return from the south?
It will soon be spring
Which tool is used to measure wind speed?
What is an anemometer?
What type of cloud looks like a blanket covering the sky?
What are stratus clouds?
What is the term for the weight of the air pushing down on earth?
What is air pressure?
What type of device orbits the earth and takes pictures to show where clouds are and how they are moving?
What is a weather satellite?
What does it mean if a muskrat's lodge is built in the middle of a lake?
The winter will be long
What is the name of the tool that measures atmospheric pressure?
What is a barometer?
What clouds are high in the atmosphere and look thin and wispy?
What are cirrus clouds?
What is the term for the layer of air that surrounds the earth?
What is atmosphere?
What device sends radio signals into the air and sends the information back to a station where the information is changed into a map to show where precipitation is, and how much?
What is radar?
According to First Nations and Metis people, what is going to happen if the coyotes are howling at night?
A storm is coming
What do meteorologists use to display weather data visually?
What are weather maps?
What type of cloud is associated with thunderstorms?
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
What do we call a scientist that studies and reports on the weather?
What is a meteorologist?
What happens to air particles when the weather warms up?
The particles move faster and spread apart?
According to the Dene people, what does it mean if the snowshoe hare's footprints are wide?
There is going to be a lot of snow
Which device shows the amount of rainfall over a period?
What is a rain gauge?
What is the term for the different types of cloud formations?
What is cloud classification?
Vocabulary
What is the term for water that falls from the sky in either liquid or solid form?
What is precipitation?
What happens when there is a change in air pressure?
Wind is created.
What does it mean if a muskrat builds its lodge close to the edge of the water?
The winter will be mild