Show:
weather instuments
clouds
forms of precipation
severe storms
Fronts
100
A meteorologists.
Who measures rainfall with a rain gauge?
100
Stratus, Cirrus, and Cumulus.
What are the three main types of clouds?
100
Rain, snow, freezing rain, and sleet.
forms of precipitation?
100
Thunder.
What sound is after lightning?
100
cool, humid air masses that form over icy cold North Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
What is Maritime polar?
200
Wind speed.
What does an anemometer measure?
200
Fair weather.
What do cumulus clouds usually mean?
200
Round pellets of ice larger than 5 mm.
What is hail?
200
A rapidly whirling, funnel-shaped cloud.
What is a tornado?
200
Warm, humid air masses form over oceans near the iropics.
What is Maritime tropical?
300
A glass tube with a bulb at each end.
What does a thermometer look like?
300
Feathery.
What do cirrus clouds look like?
300
Hits a cold surface and freezes.
What is freezing rain?
300
The center of a ring of a cloud.
What is the eye of the hurricane?
300
The prevailing westerlies generally push air masses from west to east.
How do air masses move?
400
Wind blows and the wind vane points in the direction the wind is blowing.
How does a wind vane work?
400
Latin.
Where did the word Nimbus come from?
400
It falls through a layer of air bellow the freezing point.
What is sleet?
400
It brings high waves and severe flooding as well as wind damage.
What is hurricane damage?
400
A huge mass of air moves across the land and the ocean.
What is a front?
500
Mercury and android.
What are the two types of barometers?
500
Rain or snow.
What are the types of weather Nimbostratus can have?
500
The most common precipitation.
What is rain?
500
At rivers, oceans, and rain.
What can cause a flood
500
Sometimes cold and warm air masses meet, but neither one has enough force to move the other.
What is a stationary front?