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Measuring the Weather
Clouds and Precipitation
Predicting the Weather
Local Weather Patterns
Global Weather Patterns
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Meteorologists use this to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100
Clouds form when this process happens to water vapor.
What is condensation?
100
This word describes where two different air masses meet.
What is a front?
100
This word represents an imaginary line that divides Earth in half horizontally.
What is the equator?
100
This term describes an air current in the upper atmosphere that flows from west to east.
What is the jet stream?
200
This instrument is used to measure rain fall.
What is a rain gauge?
200
These big, puffy, and dark summer clouds often bring hail and thunderstorms.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
200
A large body of air with about the same temperature and humidity throughout.
What is an air mass?
200
This word is used to describe the distance north or south of the equator.
What is latitude?
200
This term describes an unusual warming of the ocean water in the eastern Pacific Ocean near the equator.
What is El Nino?
300
This instrument shows the direction wind comes from.
What is a wind vane?
300
These clouds form high up and are made mostly of ice crystals. Their latin name means curl of hair.
What are cirrus clouds?
300
Where a warm air mass meets a colder air mass and slowly rises over it, often bringing rain.
What is a warm front?
300
This term describes the half of Earth above the equator.
What is the Northern Hemisphere?
300
This term describes a warm ocean current in the Atlantic Ocean that Ben Franklin studied.
What is the Gulf Stream?
400
This instrument is used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
400
These clouds look like a big blanket over the earth. Their latin name means layer.
What are stratus clouds?
400
Where two air masses meet and stop moving, often bringing precipitation that can last several days.
What is stationary front?
400

This word describes the season we experience when it is summer in the Southern Hemisphere.

What is winter?

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This term describes an unusual cooling of the eastern Pacific Ocean.
What is La Nina?
500
This instrument measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
500
This is what a stratus cloud is called when it forms low to the ground.
What is fog?
500

The place where a cold air mass meets a warm air mass, causing the warm air to rise- often bringing snow or storms.

What is a cold front?

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This term describes the wind you feel during the day time at the beach.
What is a sea breeze?
500
These winds cause most weather systems in the United states to move from west to east.
What are the prevailing westerlies?