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Weather Tools
Clouds
Water Cycle
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Misc.
100
A tool that measures temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100
True or False: A cirrus cloud is thin and wispy, white, stretch across the sky, and mean fair weather.
What is true?
100
These are formed after tiny water droplets evaporate into the atmosphere.
What are clouds?
100
This is a boundary between air masses of different temperatures.
What is a front?
100
Our atmosphere is made mostly of this gas.
What is nitrogen?
200
A tool that measures the amount of rainfall.
What is a rain gauge?
200
A type of cloud that looks like big, puffy cotton balls, white and usually means fair weather.
What is a cumulus cloud?
200
The process of water falling from the sky. Can be in four different forms.
What is precipitation?
200
When cold air "pushes" on warm air.
What is a cold front?
200
This is the blanket of air that surrounds Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
300
A tool that shows wind direction.
What is a wind vane?
300
True or False: A Cumulonimbus cloud blankets the sky, it is gray/gloomy, thick, foggy, and sometimes might have light rain or drizzle.
What is false? Stratus.
300
The process in which water is turned into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
300
When air masses of different temperatures meet and do not move.
What is a stationary front?
300
32 F and 212 F
What is the freezing temperature and the boiling temperature of water?
400
A tool that measures the humidity in the air.
What is a hygrometer?
400
A collection of water droplets suspended in the air at or near the Earth's surface.
What is fog?
400
The process of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
What is the water cycle?
400
When warm air "pushes" on cold air.
What is a warm front?
400
Climate.
What is the average weather a region has over a period of time?
500
A tool that measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
500
This type of cloud is dark, gray, and usually means thunderstorms. Sometimes referred to as "mountains in the sky."
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
500
Without this, the water cycle would not occur.
What is the sun or the sun's energy?
500
The air is more humid in South Dakota or Alabama.
What is Alabama?
500
More water evaporates from here than from any other sources on Earth.
What are the oceans?