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Clouds
Weather Instruments
The Water Cycle
Precipitation
Know your Barometer
100
I am found high in the sky and look like wisps or pony tails.
What is Cirrus?
100
It is used to measure rain.
What is a rain gauge?
100
I am part of the water cycle. The sun heats up water and I turn to water vapor.
What is evaporation?
100
I am water droplets from the sky.
What is rain?
100
You see me as a capital H on a weather map. I represent nice weather.
What is a high front?
200
I am found in the middle of the sky and look like big puffy marshmallows.
What is Cumulus?
200
It is used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
200
I am part of the water cycle. I collect as water droplets in the sky as I cool.
What is condensation?
200
I am freezing rain.
What is sleet?
200
You see me as a capital L on a weather map. I represent stormy weather.
What is a low front?
300
I am found low in the sky and look like a big gray blanket.
What is Stratus?
300
It is used to measure wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
300
I am part of the water cycle. I fall from the sky in different forms of water.
What is precipitation?
300
I am chunks of ice.
What is hail?
300
When the water level goes up on a barometer this is the type of weather we will have outside.
What is stormy?
400
Clouds are made up of me.
What are water droplets?
400
It is used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
400
I am part of the water cycle. I form different types of bodies of water such as lakes, rivers, streams, ponds, oceans, and puddles.
What is collection?
400
I am light and fluffy. I always have 6 sides and there are no two of us alike.
What is snow?
400
When the water level goes down on the barometer this is the type of weather we will have outside.
What is nice weather?
500
I am used to spot and idetify clouds.
What are my eyes?
500
They are used to measure wind direction.
What is a weather vane?
500
Name and explain all four stages of the water cycle.
What are evaporation where the sun heats up water and it is turend to water vapor, condensation where the water vapor cools and forms clouds, precipitation when the water falls from the sky, and collection where the water forms into rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, oceans and puddles.
500
Name and describe all four types of precipitation.
What are: hail-bits of ice, snow-light fluffy flakes, rain-water droplets, sleet-freezing rain.
500
I am measured by a barometer.
What is air pressure?