The condition of the air around us at a specific time.
What is weather?
True or False: If the temperature before a cold front comes through is 75 degrees, it may drop to 70 degrees after the cold front moves through.
What is true?
The average or typical weather in a particular area over time.
What is climate?
True or False: weather describes the CURRENT conditions outside.
What is true?
High wispy clouds made of tiny ice particles that usually bring fair weather.
What are cirrus clouds?
When a warm air mass pushes out cold air usually causing steady rain showers and an increase in temperatures.
What is a warm front?
True or False: I should put a thermometer under a tree in the shade to get the best temperature for the day.
What is false?
Clouds that are low to the ground and make it hard to see sometimes.
What is fog?
When a cold air mass pushes out warm air usually bringing thunderstorms and a drop in temperatures.
What is a cold front?
True or False: dew is a form of precipitation.
What is false?
Water that evaporates from plants.
What is transpiration?
Tall, dark, and puffy clouds that bring thunderstorms.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
The type of pressure system that brings fair (good) weather.
What is a high pressure system?
A tool that measures wind direction.
What is a wind vane?
True or False: a low pressure system usually will bring rain or storms.
What is a true?