Head in the Clouds
Tools to Measure the Weather
The Water Cycle
What's the Forecast
Hodgepodge
100

Low flying stratus clouds that you can walk through.

What is fog?

100

The tool that measures the temperature of the air.

What is a thermometer?

100

Rain, sleet, hail, and snow are all forms of this.

What is precipitation?

100

Blue triangles on a weather map indicate this.

What is a cold front or cold air mass?

100

This will let you know how much rain has fallen over a given amount of time.

What is a rain gauge?

200

High, wispy clouds that are made of ice crystals.

What are cirrus?

200

The device that tells you what direction the wind is blowing form.

What is a wind (weather) vane?

200

The movement of water from one place to another.

What is the water cycle?

200

Red semicircles on a weather map indicate this.

What is a warm front or warm air mass?

200

The name of a violent windstorm that is produced from a cumulonimbus cloud.

What is a tornado?

300

Puffy, white clouds with flat bottoms.

What are cumulus?

300

A barometer measures this.

What is air pressure?

300

This occurs when the sun's thermal energy makes liquid water turn into a gas.

What is evaporation?

300

Cumulus clouds indicate this kind of weather.

What is "fair weather"?

300

This is the source of energy that drives the weather on our planet.

What is the sun or solar energy?

400
The nickname for the huge, vertical clouds that often produce violent thunderstorms.

What are thunderheads?

400

This is a device used to measure the speed of the wind.

What is an anemometer?

400

Water vapor in the atmosphere begins to cool and come together to form clouds.

What is condensation?

400

The different colors on a weather map tell you this.

What is temperature?

400

This is created by warm air rising and cool air rushing in to take its place.

What is wind?

500

The low flying clouds that can produce days of steady rain.

What are nimbostratus?

500

A hygrometer will tell you how much of this is in the air.

What is moisture or water vapor?  

500

The word that describes when the water cycle will end.

What is never?

500
Areas of low pressure generally indicate this type of weather.

What are clouds and rain?

500

The type of weather that is commonly found where warm and cold fronts meet.

What is rain?