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Planets
Clouds
The Sun
Weather Instruments
Air
100
This planet looks like a blue-and-white ball will flecks of green in it.
What is Earth
100
Name the three main types of clouds
What are cirrus, cumulus, and stratus.
100
Why is the sun so important to Saskatchewan?
What is "it provides us the energy needed to grow our crops"
100
Meteorology is the scientific study of this.
What is weather.
100
According to scientists, air is made up of what?
What are different kinds of tiny particles.
200
This planet is best known for its impressive rings.
What is Saturn.
200
This kind of cloud is thin and looks like curls of hair.
What is cirrus.
200
This is the age of the sun.
What is 4.5 billion years old.
200
Someone who studies the weather is called this.
What is a meteorologist.
200
What kind of air rises and what kind of air sinks?
What is warm air rises and cool air sinks.
300
This planet is sometimes called the "red planet."
What is Mars.
300
This kind of cloud looks puffy and have flat bottoms.
What is cumulus.
300
This is how far away the sun is from the earth.
What is one astronomical unit (1AU) or 149 600 000km.
300
We can use a thermometer to measure this.
What is temperature.
300
The natural movement of air parallel to Earth's surface is called this.
What is wind.
400
This planet is often compared to a large, round, blue popsicle.
What is Neptune.
400
When this kind of cloud touches the ground it is called fog.
What is stratus.
400
These are cooler spots on the Sun's surface.
What are sunspots.
400
This weather instrument shows the direction from which the wind is blowing.
What is a weather vane (or wind vane).
400
The weight of air pushing down on Earth is called air ___________.
What is pressure.
500
These are the inner planets of our solar system.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.
500
Clouds with the word __________ in their name bring precipitation.
What is Nimbus.
500
These are the three layers of the sun's atmosphere.
What are photosphere, corona, and chromosphere.
500
Name three weather instruments.
What is a barometer, a thermometer, an anemometer, a weather (wind) vane, a rain gauge.
500
The boundary between two air masses is called a ________________.
What is front.