Weather Vocabulary
Seasons and the Water Cycle
Severe Weather
Severe Weather Precautions
Measuring Weather
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How hot or cold something is.
What is temperature?
100
The number of seasons and their names.
What is 4 and winter, spring, summer, and fall?
100
A storm near the coast that produces high winds, thunder, lightening, lots or rain, and sometimes floods.
What is a hurricane?
100
In this type of storm you should stay away from windows and go to a basement or cellar.
What is a tornado?
100
Wind directions is measured with ____________.
What is a wind vane?
200
Changes in weather patterns on Earth are called _______.
What are seasons?
200
When liquid water turns into a gas.
What is evaporation?
200
A column of spinning air with high winds and sometimes hail and lightening.
What is a tornado?
200
In this type of storm you should board up your windows and doors and go to a shelter.
What is a hurricane?
200
A tool for measuring temperature.
What is a thermometer?
300
Rain, sleet, snow, and hail are different kinds of _______.
What is precipitation?
300
Water vapor turns back into a liquid (tiny water droplets) and forms clouds.
What is condensation?
300
A storm that includes a great amount of precipitation so that there is an overflowing of water.
What is a flood?
300
In this type of weather you should move to high grounds.
What is a flood?
300
We use this scale to measure how strong the wind is blowing.
What is the Beaufort Wind Scale?
400
Moving air.
What is wind?
400
We must have this for the water cycle to begin and continue.
What is the sun?
400
This storm includes rain, thunder, lightening, and sometimes hail.
What is a thunder storm?
400
During this type of storm you should stay in your house where it is warm.
What is a snowstorm?
400
These can tell us what kind of weather is coming.
What are clouds?
500
__________ is what it is like outside from day to day.
What is weather?
500
This season is when trees lose their leaves and the weather becomes cooler.
What is fall (or autumn)?
500
Produces large amounts of snow.
What is snow storm?
500
During this storm you should keep away from tall trees and water.
What is a thunder storm?
500
We use this tool to measure how much precipitation has fallen.
What is a rain gauge?