Victorious Vocabulary
The amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
This weather tool collects rain and measures the amount of rainfall
What is a rain gauge?
Feathery clouds that form high in the atmosphere and are made of tiny crystals of ice
What are cirrus clouds?
There is more fresh water than salt water on Earth...True or False
False
This type of air pressure means a fair, sunny, dry day
What is high pressure?
An area where one air mass meets another
What is a front?
This weather tool points in the direction from which the wind is blowing
What is a wind vane?
This type of cloud looks like a cotton ball and means fair weather.
What are cumulus clouds?
These are the types of precipitation
What are rain, freezing rain, snow, sleet, and hail?
This type of air pressure usually means damp, cooler weather
What is low pressure?
A scientist who studies the weather
What is a meteorologist?
This weather tool measures the wind speed
What is an anemometer?
This type of cloud can form as fog
What are stratus clouds?
The changing of liquid water into water vapor when heat (the sun) is acting upon it
What is evaporation?
The day to day changes in wind, temperature, and precipitation
What is weather?
The pushing force of air down on the Earth
What is air pressure?
This weather tool measures the air pressure
What is a barometer?
This cloud term means "rain bearing"
What is nimbus?
When water vapor cools and turns back into liquid water, how clouds are formed
What is condensation?
The year to year weather patterns over an area
What is climate?
This means that clouds can no longer hold any more water
What is saturation?
This tool measures the humidity in the air
What is a hygrometer?
These clouds mean strong storms are on the way
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
Any type of water that falls back to Earth
What is precipitation?
True or False: the water cycle uses new water every time in precipitates
False