Weather Tools
Vocabulary
Hurricanes/Tornadoes
Take Your Chances
100
This instrument measures air temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100

Rain, snow, sleet and hail are called?

What is precipitation? 

100
The center of a hurricane is known as the ________.
What is the eye?
100
These are the 4 types of preciptaion.
What are rain, sleet, snow, and hail?
200
If you were trying to measure the speed of the wind, you would need this weather tool.
What is an anemometer?
200

How it is outside? (the condition)

What is weather?

200
True or False: Tornadoes are smaller in size than hurricanes.
What is True?
200
A person who studies and predicts the weather is known as this.
What is a meteorologist?
300
If I wanted to know the direction the wind is blowing, I would use this weather tool.
What is a weather vane?
300

Several months of the year with the same temperature? 

What is season?

300
This is the calmest part of a hurricane.
What is the eye?
300

Which month did it rain the most?

What is June?

400
This instrument measures the amount of precipitation.
What is a rain gauge?
400
Something that repeats itself?

What is a pattern?

400
True or False: A tornado has weaker winds than a hurricane.
What is false?
400

How did the weather change over the week?

 

What is the temperature is getting cooler?

500
This weather tool helps you know what to wear each day.
What is a thermometer?
500

What do you call information that is being collected?

What is data?

500
A large storm is heading in your direction from the ocean. It has been in the news for a week. The meteorologists call it a __________?
What is a hurricane?
500

How many more inches of rain fell on day 2 than the day 4?

What is 2 inches more?