Atmosphere and Air Temperature
A Bit of Everything
Clouds and Percipitation
Air Pressure and Wind
Vocabulary
100

The state of the atmosphere at a specific place and time.

What is weather?

100

The changing of a gas into a liquid.

What is condensation?

100

A cloud at ground level.

What is fog?

100

Air that moves horizontally.

What is wind?

100

The average weather pattern of a region.

What is climate?

200

If the clouds are dark, the air pressure is falling, and it is warm. What type of weather might you expect?

What is rainy weather?

200

The water that is in the air.

What is water vapor?

200

A type of cloud that forms in blanketlike layers.

What are stratus clouds?

200

A wind that blows from land toward the water.

What is land breeze?

200

A weather tool that measures humidity.

What is a Hygrometer?

300

This instrument measures air pressure.

What is barometer?

300

The changing of a liquid into a gas.

What is evaporation?

300

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

What are cumulus clouds?

300

This kind of pressure system happens when warm air rises and means that precipitation is near.

What is Low pressure?

300

What is transpiration?

When water evaporates from plant leaves.  "Plant sweat"

400

This measures the amount of heat energy in the atmosphere.

What is temperature?

400

The amount of water vapor in the air.

What is humidity?

400

This type of cloud forms at a very high altitude out of ice crystals and have a wispy, featherlike shape

What are cirrus clouds?

400

On a nice sunny day, this kind of system is happening. This happens when cool air sinks.

What is a high pressure system?

400

3-4 inches of rain is expected to fall tonight. I will use this weather tool to measure it.

What is a rain gauge?

500

The force put on a given area by the weight of the air above it.

What is air pressure?

500

This person predicts the weather.

What is a meteorologist?

500

Any form of water particles that falls from the atmosphere and reaches the ground

What is precipitation?

500

A wind that blows from the sea toward the land.

What is sea breeze?

500

What is the weather instrument that measures wind speed?

What is an anemometer?