Weather Instruments
Weather Predictions
Water Cycle & Weather
Clouds
100
an instrument to record the direction of the wind
What is a wind vane?
100
liquid that falls from the sky when a cloud becomes saturated (full and heavy)
What is precipitation?
100
when water turns from a liquid to a gas during heating
What is evaporation?
100
High feathery clouds
What are cirrus clouds?
200
an instrument for measuring temperature
What is a thermometer?
200
You can tell what direction the wind is coming from by looking at this end of the wind vane
What is the arrow?
200
The average weather in a place over many years
What is climate?
200
thick, gray clouds that span the entirety of the sky
What are stratus clouds?
300
an instrument that measures air pressure
What is a barometer?
300
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
300
Water in the form of a gas
What is water vapor?
300
Puffy white clouds
What are cumulus clouds?
400
an instrument that measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
400
The amount of heat present.
What is temperature?
400
the process of water vapor (a gas) changing into a liquid through cooling
What is condensation?
400
Tall cumulus clouds that bring thunderstorms
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
500
an instrument that measures the amount of precipitation that has fallen
What is a rain gauge?
500
The movement of air over Earth's surface.
What is wind?
500
The state of the Earth's atmosphere.
What is weather?
500
When you see stratus clouds this can mean...
What is a change in weather?