Tools
A tool that measures air temperature.
What is a thermometer?
This is known as moving air.
What is wind?
The general weather of an area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
Something created to prevent flooding in an area.
What is a levee or flood wall?
The condition of what the atmosphere, or air , is like outside from day to day.
What is weather?
A tool that measures that measures the amount of rain that falls.
What is a rain gauge?
This part of weather is how hot or how cold the air is.
What is temperature?
What is a polar climate?
A dark funnel of strong and violent circulating winds.
What is a tornado?
A scientist who studies and predicts the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
A tool that measures wind direction.
What is a weather vane?
Water in any form falling from the clouds. This includes rain, drizzle, hail, snow, sleet, and freezing rain.
What is precipitation?
A climate with little precipitation and dry air.
What is a dry climate?
A large tropical storm with high wind speeds that forms over waters.
What is a hurricane?
What is a weather report?
A tool that measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
The weight of air pressing on everything around it.
What is air pressure?
A climate with hot and humid weather and heavy rainfall.
What is a tropical climate?
A snowstorm with high winds and low temperatures.
What is a blizzard?
A description of what the weather will be like in the future.
What is a weather forecast?
A tool that measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
The air that surrounds earth.
What is the atmosphere?
What is a moderate climate?
An overflow of water onto land that is normally dry.
What is a flood?
The path that all water follows as it moves around Earth in different forms. The steps include evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
What is the water cycle?