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Weather Instruments
Water Cycle
Clouds
Vocabulary
Global Winds
100
Weather instrument that measures temperature.
What is thermometer?
100
When water falls as rain, sleet, hail, or snow.
What is precipitation?
100
blanketlike
What is stratus clouds?
100
Boundary that forms between two different air masses.
What is a front?
100
Air that moves horizontally.
What is wind?
200
Weather instrument that measures rain amount.
What is rain gauge?
200
When water turns from a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
200
puffy
What is cumulus clouds?
200
The amount of the sun's energy that reaches Earth at a given place and time.
What is angle of insolation?
200
Winds that blow closest to the equator.
What is trade winds?
300
Weather instrument that measures wind direction.
What is wind vane?
300
when water vapor cools down.
What is condensation?
300
thunderstorm clouds
What is nimbo or nimbus?
300
Air moving in a circular pattern because of unequal heating and cooling.
What is a convection cell?
300
Winds that blow at the poles.
What is polar easterlies?
400
Weather instrument that measures humidity.
What is hygrometer?
400
When water flows to a lower elevation.
What is runoff?
400
high altitudes, formed of ice crystals, wispy, featherlike
What is cirrus clouds?
400
The average weather pattern of a region.
What is climate?
400
Wind that blows across the United States.
What is prevailing westerlies?
500
Weather instrument that measures air pressure.
What is barometer?
500
This stage of the water cycle is when water is sitting in a river, lake, or ocean
What is collection?
500
Clouds on the ground.
What is fog?
500
All of earth's weather occurs in this layer of the atmosphere.
What is the troposphere?
500
Wind high above Earth that is responsible for pushing weather around the planet.
What is the jet stream?