Weather words
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100

A place where weather is recorded and then told to the public.

Weather Station

100

These are very large rocks.

Boulders

100

This is all of the items you need to do something for example all the gear you need to climb a mountain. Your gear is your ?

Equipment

100

Something not safe, something that is a risk or peril.

Danger

100

Another word for the ground.

Terrain

200

It starts to snow lightly and then after awhile it snows harder, not as bad as a blizzard...it is a ?

Snowstorm

200

A long wide ditch-like hole in the ground. It is not a valley it is a?

Trench

200

An axe used in mountain climbing to cut into the ice.

Ice Axe

200

What is another word for the art of mountain climbing?

Mountaineering

200

The very top of a mountain.

Summit

300

A very severe, cold, snowstorm.

Blizzard

300

This is the long narrow stretch that connects two mountain peaks, it is not a cliff it is a ?

Ridge

300

A metal spick used in mountain climbing with a metal eye or ring at one end.

piton 

300

Something that is so beautiful it takes away your breath is called?

Breathtaking

300

A high steep or overhanging face of rock on a mountain side or ridge.

cliff

400

A combination of snow and freezing ground that covers everything.  It is not sleet but it is a condition that is ?

Icy

400

This is a slanted side to a mountain, if it is slippery it is hard to climb up it.

Slope

400

The oval ring, in mountain climbing, that attaches to the pitons and Keeps the equipment together and safe. It has a safety release on it.

Carabiner

400

A place to rest your foot on when you are climbing a mountain.

Foothold

400

A group of mountains in a row.  SURPRISE WORD

Mountain Range
500

A day off from school because of bad weather.  SURPRISE WORD

Snow Day . or school cancellation

500

The most difficult climbing surface on a mountain is called this.

Vertical Ice

500

To secure the carabiners and pitons together with a rope. It is also a way to move on the mountain slope.

Belay

500

When you use anything around you that you find to make something that you need.

Improvise

500

A type of mountain that explodes.  SURPRISE WORD

Volcano