Weather for 5th Grade

Weather Tools

100

Instrument used to measure temperate

What is thermometer

200

Instrument used to measure humidity 

Hygrometer

300

Instrument used to measure air pressure

What is Barometer

400

Instrument used to measure wind speed

What is anemometer

500

Instrument used to measure the wind direction

What is a wind vane

Clouds

100

Middle level cloud, puffy white, flat base.

What is cumulus

200

High level clouds thin, wispy, made of ice crystals. 

What is cirrus?

300

low level a type of cloud that forms in blanket like layers

What is stratus?

400

these clouds are puffy and appear to rise up from a flat bottom

What are cumulus clouds

500

Rain cloud, thunderstorms 

What is nimbus/nimbo?

Air Pressure and Wind

100

Air molecules move from a high pressure to a low pressure?

What is wind?

200

a wind that blows from the sea toward the land

What is sea breeze

300

a wind that blows from land toward the water

What is land breeze

400

Air pressure that brings cooler, drier weather

What is High Pressure System

500

Air pressure that brings warmer and wetter weather

What is low air pressure system

Fronts and Global Winds

100

Travels west to east, mainly affects the U.S.A

What is prevailing westerlies?

200

Unusual warming in the Pacific Ocean brings cool weather down south

What is El Nino?

300

Unusual cooling of the Pacific Ocean bring warm air down south

What is La Nina?

400

when cold air moves in under a warm air mass

What is a cold front

500

when warm air moves in over a cold air mass

What is a warm front