Clouds
What are clouds made of?
What is water and dust particles
Humidity is the amount of this in the air?
What is water or moisture
The shapes and color used for a cold front
What are blue triangles
A tool used to measure the temperature of air
What is a thermometer
The geographic direction that weather patterns generally move in the United States?
What is west to east
Name 3 types of clouds
What is cumulous, stratus and cirrus
The name of a person who studies weather.
What is a meteorologist
A curved red line with red semi-circles on it
What is the symbol for a warm front
Lines of a weather map that indicate temperature.
What are isotherms
Winds that appear to move clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern caused by this effect.
What is the Coriolis Effect
A wispy, curly, circular, feathery type of cloud made of ice crystals at higher elevations.
What is cirrus
Any form of water that falls from the sky is called this? not rain
What is precipitation
The type of front indicated by alternating opposite- facing red semicircles and blue triangles
What is a stationary front
Lines on a weather map that indicate barometric pressure
What are isobars
What is low pressure
A cloud that appears as a blanket often in layers covering the sky?
What is stratus
The temperature when air is cooled and water vapor is saturated enough to become liquid.
What is dew point
The type of front that forms when a cold air mass overtakes a warm--purple.
What is an occluded front
the tools used to measure the air pressure and wind speed
What is a barometer and anemometer
A low pressure storm that produces high winds and rain that usually forms over warm ocean water
What is a hurricane
Two (raindrops) is company and three's a cloud. What do you get when you sync your phone to the cloud?
What is a mist call.
The number of thunderstorms that rain down on Earth every minute. What is approximately: 100, 500 or 2000?
What is 2000!
How cold, warm, stationary and occluded ones enter into most houses?
What is through the front door.
Multiple measuring devices are sent up into the stratosphere with this weather tool?
What is a weather balloon
When puffy cumulous clouds combine with spaghetti-like wispy ones?
What is the cloudy with a chance of meatballs