Measuring Weather

Mr. Golden Sun

100

Sunlight passes through this but does not heat it.

What is the air?

200

All of the following are quickly heated by the sun except: blacktop, cement, grass, or buildings

What is grass?

300

I am a surface that absorbs a lot of heat from the sun. If you walk on me in the summer you better have shoes on.

What is blacktop?

400

Sunlight hitting the earth at different angles causes this.

What is an uneven heating of the earth?

500

I am what happens to the liquid inside a thermometer when the sun heats the air.

What is it expands?

Tools of the Trade

100

I am a tool used to measure the temperature of the air.

What is a thermometer?

200

I am a tool for measuring air pressure.

What is a barometer?

300

I am the oldest tool for measuring wind direction.

What is a wind vane?

400

A wind vane often has cross bars that show this.

What are the four main directions (N, S, W, E)?

500

I am a tool that measures moisture in the air.

What is a hygrometer?

Full of Hot Air

100

I am the weight of air on the surface of the earth.

What is air pressure?

200

Air is heated by the heat from this.

What is the Earth's surface?

300

This is what happens to the air when two air masses meet.

What is the air stays separate?

400

This type of air temperature forms a high-pressure area.

What is cool air?

500

I am a large body of air with about the same temperature and humidity throughout.

What is an air mass?

Not a cloud in the sky

100

Clouds are formed from this.

What is water vapor?

200

I am a dome-shaped cloud with a flat bottom. I am seen around noon or later in the afternoon.

What is a cumulus cloud?

300

I am a feathery-looking cloud that forms high in the sky out of ice crystals.

What is a cirrus cloud?

400

I am a low cloud that forms flat, gray sheets and usually produce rain or snow.

What is a stratus cloud?

500

I am the moisture that falls from the clouds to the ground.

What is precipitation?

Weather, Weather Everywhere

100

I am a place where a cold air mass and a warm air mass meet.

What is a front?

200

I am a term that means about the same as moisture and is used to describe the amount of moisture in the air.

What is humidity?

300

I am a person who studies weather.

What is a meteorologist?

400

I am the reason most weather patterns generally move from west to east in the United States.

What is because air masses that create weather patterns usually move from west to east across the United States?

500

I am the government agency that collects information about weather and issues watches and warnings.

What is The National Weather Service?