Cloud Types
Measurement Tools
Severe Weather
Precipitation
Misc.
100
This type of weather is associated with this cloud.
What is Fair Weather?
100
Measures amount of heat in atmosphere (temperature).
What is a thermometer.
100
Very high winds, funnel shaped cloud.
What is a tornado?
100
Falls from the sky as a liquid.
What is rain?
100
The person who studies weather.
What is a meterologist?
200
This type of cloud is known to bring stormy weather.
What is cumulonimbus?
200
Measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
200
Forms over warm waters, high winds.
What is a hurricane?
200
Falls from the sky as large, frozen raindrops produced by intense thunderstorms.
What is hail?
200
Study of weather.
What is meteorology?
300
This is the flattest type of cloud. It lies low.
What are stratus clouds?
300
Measures amount of precipitation.
What is a rain guage?
300
Measured in categories.
What is a hurricane?
300
Ice crystals that collect together as they fall to the surface in freezing air.
What is snow?
300
Any type of water that falls from the sky.
What is precipitation?
400
This type of cloud is high in the atmosphere. It brings fair weather but change is coming.
What are cirrus clouds?
400
Measures wind direction.
What is a wind vane?
400
Heavy rains, wind, thunder, and lightning.
What is a thunderstorm?
400
The process that changes liquid water to gaseous water.
What is evaporation?
400
This type of front brings cooler weather as it approaches.
What is a cold front?
500
Jenny looked outside and saw a tall dark cloud. She knew that a storm was coming.
Jenny saw a cumulonimbus cloud what type of weather is coming?
500
Measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
500
Hurricanes, thunderstorms, and tornadoes are caused by this pressure system.
What is a low pressure system?
500
Falls from the sky as ice pellets, often mixed with rain or snow
What is sleet?
500
Weight of the air/atmosphere.
What is air pressure?