Clouds
Clouds that are big, fluffy, and billowy.
A weather instrument that measures temperature.
What is a thermometer?
This is the largest ocean, and is west of North America.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The highest point of a wave.
What is the crest?
Underwater mountains.
What are seamounts?
Clouds that are curly or wispy.
What are cirrus clouds?
The weather instrument that is used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
The second largest ocean, located to the east of North America.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
The lowest point of a wave.
What is the trough?
Deep valleys in the ocean floor.
What are trenches?
The kind of clouds that bring rain.
What are nimbus clouds?
The weather instrument used to measure humidity.
What is a hygrometer?
The third largest ocean, located east of Africa, south of Asia, and west of Australia.
What is the Indian Ocean?
The distance from one crest to another crest.
What is wavelength?
Shallow area of land sloping away from the continents.
What is the continental shelf?
Clouds that are stretched out and form an even covering.
What are stratus clouds?
The weather instrument that measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
The fourth largest ocean, located near the South Pole.
What is the Antarctic Ocean?
The top of a wave falling over.
What is a breaker?
Steep drop off from continental shelf to sea floor.
What is the continental slope?
The movement of this determines a cloud's shape.
What is air?
A box that contains a thermometer, barometer, hygrometer, and a radio, and is carried by a weather balloon.
What is a radiosonde?
The smallest ocean, which is almost completely surrounded by land.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
Backflow of waves through a narrow gap in the breakers.
What is a rip tide?
Flat area of the sea floor.
What is the abyssal plain?