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Meteoroligist
What are people who study and try to predict the weather?
100
Thermometer
What is a tool that measures temperature
100
Rain Gauge
What is a tool that measures the amount of rain fall
100
Anemometer
What is a tool that measures the wind speed
100
Barometer
What is a tool that measures air pressure
200
Wind Vane
What is a tool that measures wind direction
200
Sling Psychrometer
What is a tool that measures humidity
200
Thunder
What is a loud rumbling caused when air is heated quickly by lightning
200
Lightning
What is a flash of light in the sky caused by positive and negative charges in the clouds moving toward each other and releasing energy
200
Tornadoes
What is a funnel shaped rotating column of air which develops over land when warm and cold air currents meet in the clouds and start spinning
300
Hurricanes
What are strong circling winds that form over warm waters near the equator and suck in water
300
Water Currents
What are patterns in the Earths ocens that bring warmer and colder water to certain areas which changes their climates?
300
Gulf Stream
What are powerful ocean current in the Atlantic which brings warm water up along the coast of Great Britian and Scandinavia
300
Global Winds
What is winds that blow around the world. In each hemisphere, there are 3 circles of winds called cells. At the equator, the warm air rises and begins to move towards the North and South Poles. When the air reaches the Poles, it cools and sinks, moving back towards the equator.
300
Weather
What is the condition of the air at a certain time in a certain place
400
Climate
What is the overall and usual weather patterns in an area over time
400
Atmosphere
What is a blanket of air wrapped around Earth
400
Air
What is an invisible gases, mainly oxygen and nitrogen that surround Earth
400
Water Cycle
What is the process of water changing from solid to liquid to gas and back again as it travels from the Earth to the atmosphere and back
400
Cirrus Clouds
What is a very high up, thin narrow bands of white
500
Nimbus Clouds
What is heavy dark clouds, piling high into the sky
500
Cumulus Clouds
What is puffy mounds with flat bottoms, always changing shape
500
Stratus Clouds
What are clouds low in the sky, just look gray
500
Air pressure
What is the weight of air pushing down on Earths surface, can be high or low
500
Wind
What is when cold high pressure air moces toward warm low pressure air