Weather Tools
What tool measures wind speed?
What is an anemometer.
What includes air, temperature, water, and clouds?
What is the weather.
A severe storm that is a spinning column of air that touches the ground.
What is a tornado.
What does the symbol of a sun behind a cloud mean?
What is partly cloudy.
Clouds are made of what?
What is water droplets.
This tool measures air pressure.
What is barometer
What kind of day would you see white, fluffy clouds?
What is a warm, bright day
Type of storm that has low temperatures, strong winds, and heavy snowfall.
What is blizzards.
What harmful substance do cars and trucks cause in the air?
What is ozone.
What is atmosphere?
What is blanket of air that surrounds Earth.
What does a rain gauge do?
What measures the amount of rain that has fallen.
Why are there different weather patterns in California than in South Dakota?
What is the weather patterns are different by the ocean.
Where do hurricanes form?
What is over warm oceans.
Scientists use these to gather weather data all over the world.
What is satellites.
What type of weather should you expect from a low pressure system?
What is cloudy or rainy.
What is a wind vane?
What is measures the direction of the wind.
What type of winter weather will there likely be in a town in eastern Washington?
What is cold and dry.
Describe the features of a hurricane?
What is a hurricane is a huge storm with winds of at least 74 miles per hour. It forms over an ocean, and has heavy rains, strong winds, and high waves.
Smog and ________ are harmful to health.
What is ozone.
What does a severe weather watch mean?
What is the storm could happen where you live.
What is a hygrometer?
What is the tool that measures how much water is in the air.
If the National Weather Service puts out a tornado warning, when is a tornado likely to strike?
What is during the next few minutes.
Compare a hurricane and a tornado. Explain the likes and differences.
What is A hurricane and a tornado are both dangerous storms with rain and wind, and people need to find shelter. A tornado is smaller than a hurricane, but has stronger winds. A hurricane forms over an ocean, but a tornado forms beneath a thunderstorm. People know when a hurricane is going to strike, but a tornado can strike suddenly without warning.
When should people with breathing difficulties avoid the outdoors?
What is when there is a smog alert.
What do weather patterns depend on?
What is sun, water, and location.