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Scientists record patterns in weather conditions across time and place to make predictions about what kind of weather might occur next. The name for the predictions is __________.
What is a forecast?
100
An instrument used to measure wind speed
anemometer
100
I represent this on a weather map.
What is a cold front?
100
A climate pattern representing an unusual cooling of the Pacific Ocean which is linked to impacts on weather and climate patterns around the world.
La Nina
100
When water droplets in the air become too heavy they fall as a result of gravity in the form of _________.
What is precipitation?
200
__________ describes the range of an area’s typical weather conditions and the extent to which those conditions vary over long periods of time.
What is climate?
200
An instrument used to measure humidity
hygrometer
200
This type of pressure brings fair weather.
What is high pressure?
200
Winds that travel across United States from west to east
prevailing westerlies
200
________ is the source of the heat energy that drives the water cycle
What is the sun?
300
tool used to measure air pressure
barometer
300
Amount of precipitation is measured in a/an ______.
What is a rain gauge?
300
I represent this on a weather map.
What is a warm front?
300
A warm OCEAN current in the Atlantic Ocean.Flows from the south of Florida, up the East coast, and then across the Atlantic towards Europe. Warms the air and land along the eastern coast of the US and brings warmer temperatures to Europe during the cooler months
Gulf Stream
300
________ clouds are puffy with flat bottoms and signal fair weather.
What are cumulus clouds?
400
Air current high in the atmosphere.
Like a “tube/river of air”
flows from the WEST to the EAST
jet stream
400
Air temperature is measured using a/an ________.
What is a thermometer?
400
air is heavy, lower/cooler temperatures, clear skies, little or no precipitation
high pressure system
400
Water in the form of a gas is located in the layer of air that is closest to earth. The name for water in the form of gas is ____________.
What is water vapor?
400
________ clouds are spread over a large area and are layered. As these clouds thicken long periods of precipitation can occur over the area where the clouds are located.
What are stratus clouds?
500
A scientists who studies the weather
What is a meteorologists?
500
A tool used to measure wind direction
wind vane
500
air is light, brings warmer temperatures, high cloud cover, high winds, a lot of precipitation
low pressure system
500
a climate pattern representing an unusual warming of the Pacific Ocean which is linked to impacts on weather and climate patterns around the world.
Brings MORE RAIN/STORMS, and higher temps
El Nino
500
The four main processes in the water cycle
What are evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff?