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Weather Instruments 1
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Water Cycle
Terms to Know
Miscellaneous
100
Measures temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100
Measures the depth of snow.
What is a ruler?
100
Rain, Sleet, Snow, and Hail
What are the four forms of precipitation?
100
Water after precipitation that seeps back into the ground.
What is infiltration?
100
Water on Earth changes from one state to another when this is taken away.
What is heat?
200
The scientist who studies weather and the atmosphere.
What is a meteorologist?
200
Measures the amount of rain.
What is a rain gauge?
200
When water changes from a liquid to water vapor.
What is evaporation?
200
The average weather in an area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
200
Lake, pond, river, glacier, streams
What are the five types of surface fresh water?
300
Measures/Shows wind direction.
What is a weather vane?
300
Shows the atmospheric conditions over a large portion of the Earth's surface.
What is a weather map?
300
The movement of water from the Earth to the atmosphere and back again.
What is the weather cycle?
300
The condition of the atmosphere at a particular time and place.
What is weather?
300
212 degrees and 100 degrees.
What are the temperatures in Fahrenheit and Celsius in which water boils?
400
They are solid, liquid, and gas.
What is the states of matter?
400
Photographs of the Earth to show large-scale air movements.
What are weather satellite images?
400
When water vapor changes to water droplets in the air.
What is condensation?
400
The high, white, wispy clouds.
What are cirrus clouds?
400
They are solid, liquid, and gas
What are the states of matter?
500
Measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
500
Measures water vapor in the air
What is a hygrometer?
500
Where the water goes after precipitation, such as a lake, pond, or ocean.
What is collection?
500
The movement of water through plants.
What is transpiration?
500
Layer of the atmosphere in which weather occurs?
What is the troposphere?