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Report the Weather
All About Air
Weather Tools
Investigations
Clouds
100
The amount of moisture that is in the air.
What is humidity?
100
Moving air
What is wind?
100
This measures air temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100
A device that can pump or spray air or water in a stream
What is a syringe?
100
Clouds that are touching the ground.
What is fog?
200
How hot or cold the air is
What is temperature?
200
This happens to air when it gets moved into a smaller space.
What is compression?
200
This measures wind direction.
What is a wind vane?
200
The part of a syringe that you press. It has a black rubber cylinder
What is the plunger?
200
Big, fluffy, cotton-ball-looking clouds that are found at low to middle heights in the atmosphere.
What are cumulus clouds?
300
This is air, pushing on everything, all the time.
What is air pressure?
300
When you watch air move through water, you will see this.
What are bubbles?
300
This measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
300
This is the part of a syringe that can contain air or water.
What is the barrel?
300
High, thin, stretched-out clouds composed of ice.
What are cirrus clouds?
400
A scientist who studies the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
400
A set of objects that are related in some way and can be isolated for study; a group of things or parts.
What is a system?
400
This measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
400
These are the two different units for measuring temperature.
What are degrees Fahrenheit and degrees Celsius?
400
Huge, expansive layers of gray clouds that hang low and fill the sky.
What are stratus clouds?
500
When air pushes on an object moving through air and slows the object down
What is resistance?
500
This is what causes a parachute to float down to earth slowly, rather than fall very fast.
What is resistance?
500
An orbiting machine that takes photographs of the earth and sends them down to weather stations on the ground
What is a weather satellite?
500
This is a word used to describe something that you cannot see.
What is invisible?
500
Rain, sleet, hail, or snow.
What is precipitation?