Weather
Air Pressure and Clouds
Clouds Cont.
Weather Types
Weather Tools
100

The day-to-day state of the atmosphere for a certain area

What is Weather

100

The weight of air pressing against a surface?

What is air pressure?

100

What type of clouds generally mean the weather is going to be fair?

What are cumulus clouds?

100

______ includes rain, snow, sleet, and hail that fall from clouds.

What is precipitation

100

What does an anemometer measure?

What is wind speed?

200

The weather in a certain area averaged over many years

What is climate

200

If the air pressure reading on a barometer is falling, what can you expect?

What is story weather and strong winds?

200

What type of clouds usually bring light rain and drizzle?

What are stratus clouds?
200

Thunderstorms tend to develop during what kind of weather conditions?

warm and humid weather
200

What weather instrument measure air pressure?

What is a barometer?

300

Factors like cloudiness, wind speed, precipitation and temperature are used to describe _________?

What is weather

300

What weather can you expect with a high air pressure mass?

What are clear skies and light winds?
300

What clouds look like feathers?

what are cirrus clouds

300

Where does a hurricane form

What is over warm, tropical water

300

What weather tool is used to measure the amount of precipitation that has fallen?

What is a rain gauge?

400

What object in the solar system affects weather conditions on Earth?

What is the Sun?


400

What type of clouds are fluffy and white with flat bottoms?

What are cumulus clouds?

400

What is the name of the tall dark cloud that can produce thunderstorms?

what is a cumulonimbus cloud


400

Name 3 weather conditions you can see during a thunderstorm

What is thunder, lightening, and heavy rain

400

What tool is used to measure air temperature?

What is a thermometer?


500

Rain, snow, fog, etc. are common?

What is weather events?

500

What type of clouds are smooth, gray and cover the whole sky?

What are stratus clouds?
500

What cloud is associated with fair weather, but often means that precipitation will fall within several hours?

What are cirrus clouds?

500

A _______ can form from a thunderstorm as the wind changes direction and the air starts to rotate

What is a tornado

500

Meteorologists use weather data to create ______?

What is forecasts (predictions)