Weather Words
Water that falls from the sky as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is Precipitation?
A scientist who studies weather.
To make a picture in your mind using information from different sources.
What is to visualize?
What is one tool that a meteorologist might use?
What is a thermometer?
How hot or cold it is outside.
What is temperature?
To use a thermometer, ruler, or scale to find out information.
What is to measure?
To judge how useful or accurate information is.
What is to evaluate?
You say, “I think it will rain tomorrow because the sky is cloudy and the wind is strong.” What is this called?
What is a claim?
The conditions outside, including precipitation, temperature, and wind.
What is weather?
Observations or measurements you record in an investigation.
What is data?
A proposed answer to a question.
What is a claim?
You measure the amount of rain that falls each day for a week. What word describes the information you collected?
What is data?
This type of precipitation is frozen and falls in small hard pieces that would hurt if they hit your head.
A tool meteorologists might use to tell the temperature.
What is thermometer?
When you explain why one claim is the best using evidence.
What is an argument?
Evidence 1: It rained all day.
Evidence 2: It rained 15mm.
When the sky is completely covered in grey clouds, you might describe the cloud cover as this.
What is overcast?
The unit that you use to describe temperature. It goes after the number, for example: It is 65...
what is degrees Fahrenheit?
Identify the evidence:
You need to wear a coat in Newburg. Gracie measured the temperature and found that it was 40 degrees Fahrenheit in Newburg and 50 degrees Fahrenheit in Oldburg. This means you need to wear a coat in Newburg.
"Gracie measured the temperature and found that it was 40 degrees Fahrenheit in Newburg and 50 degrees Fahrenheit in Oldburg."
Identify the claim:
I think it Blue Island has weather most like the weather that orangutans need. I know that orangutans need hot and rainy weather. Blue Island was the hottest and rainiest island. This means Blue Island is the best choice.
"I think it Blue Island has weather most like the weather that orangutans need."