Weather Instruments
What is the weather instrument that measures the air pressure?
Barometer
What is the process by which a liquid turns into a gas?
Evaporation
What color does cobalt paper turn when it is low humidity?
Blue
What is the layer of air that surrounds the Earth?
The atmosphere
What is the name of the cloud that is feathery and wispy, is high up and made of ice crystals?
Cirrus
What is the weather instrument that measures the wind speed?
Anemometer
What is the process by which a gas turns into a liquid?
Condensation
High
What is the layer of the atmosphere closest to the Earth?
Troposphere
Which type of cloud is white and puffy and looks like a cauliflower?
A Cumulus cloud
What is the weather instrument that measures the humidity?
Hygrometer
What do we call the never-ending path of water as it turns into a gas, and then back into a liquid and falls to earth?
The Water Cycle
What color does cobalt paper turn when there is high humidity?
Pink
What is moving air called?
Wind
Which type of clouds are low, layered and bring rain?
Stratus clouds
What is the weather instrument that measures the temperature?
Thermometer
What do we call what falls from the clouds in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail?
Precipitation
In a desert, what kind of humidity would you have?
Low
How does wind move?
From an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure.
Rain, snow, sleet, and hail are all forms of ______?
Precipitation
What is the weather instrument that measures the amount of precipitation?
Rain Gauge
In order for water to evaporate, it needs to be ____?
Heated
If the day is sunny and nice, what kind of air pressure do we have?
High air pressure
What do you call a scientist who predicts the weather?
A meteorologist
What is the instrument that tell the directions the wind is coming from?
Wind Vane