Weather instruments
Water Cycle
Types of Clouds
Weather Data
Final Jeopardy
100
A thermometer measures this.
What is air temperature?
100
This word in the water cycle describes the process which water turns back into water vapor through heat.
What is evaporation.
100
This cloud appears to be fluffy with flat bottoms, and is common to nice weather.
What is a cumulus cloud?
100
This is a graph of average yearly snowfall in two cities. This month has the highest amount of snowfall for New York.
What is January?
100
This color is often associated with fire trucks.
What is red?
200
This weather instrument collects precipitation.
What is a rain gauge?
200
Rain, sleet, and snow are examples of this.
What is precipitation?
200
This cloud has thin and wispy appearance. It can mean fair weather today, but rain coming soon.
What is a cirrus cloud?
200
This is a graph of average yearly snowfall in two cities. According to the graph, this city gets more than 2 inches of snow in the month of March.
What is Chicago?
200
Water can be found in these 3 phases.
What is solids, liquids, and gases?
300
A barometer measures this.
What is air pressure?
300
During this process of the water cycle, water cools then condenses into water droplets.
What is condensation?
300
These dark clouds cover most of the sky like a thick blanket. They usually mean light precipitation.
What are stratus clouds?
300
This type of weather is seen throughout Tennessee, according to the map.
What is fair weather?
400
This weather instrument points North, South, East and West, because of it measures wind direction.
What is weather vane.
400
These are made during the process of condensation, where water vapor condenses together to form these large masses.
What are clouds?
400
This picture shows two types of clouds combined with another. They usually predict bad weather like thunderstorms.
What are cumulonimbus clouds.
400
New York is experiencing this type of weather.
What is good weather?
500
This weather instrument looks like a helicopter and measures the speed of the wind.
What is an anemometer?
500
This word refers to the current condition of the atmosphere. It changes all the time.
What is the weather?
500
This word refers to the condition of the atmosphere over long periods of time. It rarely changes.
What is climate?
500
This day has the highest temperature with some precipitation.
What is Saturday?
500
This invisible bubble surrounds the Earth protecting it from the sun, and keeping our air from escaping. This is where weather occurs.
What is the atmosphere?