Tools
Measures air temperature
What is a thermometer?
What is a cold front?
A scientist who uses data to predict weather patterns.
What is a meteorologist?
The 4 different types of clouds.
What are cirrus, stratus, cumulus, and cumulonimbus?
The boundary between air masses of different temperature and humidity
What is a front?
Measures the amount of precipitation that has fallen
What is a rain gauge?
This type of air mass results in fair weather.
What is high pressure?
"We have a low pressure system producing today's weather, which is good if you are a duck!" What type of weather will you have?
What is cloudy, stormy, wet weather?
Fluffy and white clouds with flat bottoms
What is cumulus?
A storm that produces high wind speeds and funnel-shaped clouds
What is a tornado?
Measures wind direction
What is a wind vane or weather vane?
This type of air mass results in a formation of clouds and storms.
What is low pressure?
"You can thank a high pressure system for today's weather!" What type of weather do you have?
What is fair weather?
Thin, wispy, feathery clouds made of ice crystals
What is cirrus?
A tropical storm that forms over an ocean; produces high winds, heavy rain, and large waves
What is a hurricane?
Measures air pressure
What is a barometer?
Rain, sleet, snow, and hail
What is precipitation?
"The morning sky is covered with stratus clouds. You know what you can expect!"
What is: light rain and drizzle?
Smooth, gray, flat, blanket-like clouds that spread out over the sky
What is stratus?
Cumulonimbus clouds can produce this storm with heavy rain, strong wind, and lightning.
What is a thunderstorm?
measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
A very large body of air that has about the same temperature and humidity through it
What is an air mass?
"There's a lot of movement of air from high to low pressure areas out there today. You, Junior Scientists, know what to call this!"
What is: wind?
Type of cloud that looks like fluffy, dark gray puffs of smoke; usually produces a thunderstorm
What is cumulonimbus?
SEVERE storms that form over land; can travel 800 kilometers (497 miles) per hour ; occur most often in spring and early summer
What are tornadoes?