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Weather Instruments
Water Cycle
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Weather Words
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thermometer
What is the name of the weather instrument with two scales that measures temperature?
100
the sun
What is the source of heat that causes water to evaporate from oceans, rivers and lakes?
100
rain
You see low gray stratus clouds covering the sky. What kind of weather do you predict?
100
atmosphere
What is the name of the layer of air surrounding the earth?
100
ice cubes
What part of the cloud jar represented the cold atmosphere?
200
barometer
What is the instrument used for measuring air pressure?
200
water vapor
What is water called when it is in the form of a gas?
200
nice weather
The air pressure is getting higher. What kind of weather do you predict?
200
meteorologist
What is the name of someone who studies the weather?
200
hot water
What part of the cloud jar represented water heated by the sun?
300
wind vane
What is the instrument used for measuring wind direction?
300
evaporation
What is it called when water is heated and changes from a liquid into a gas?
300
thunder storm
There is a tall dark cumulonimbus cloud forming in the sky. What kind of weather do you predict?
300
partly-cloudy
What is called when the sky is 1/4 to 3/4 covered in clouds?
300
heat, wind
What is one thing that can speed up evaporation?
400
anemometer
What is the instrument used for measuring wind speed?
400
precipitation
What is another name for rain and snow?
400
bad or stormy weather
The air pressure is dropping. What kind of weather do you predict?
400
Celsius
What is the name of the temperature scale on which water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees?
400
humidity
What condition of the air causes cobalt paper to turn pink?
500
blue
What color is cobalt paper when the humidity is low?
500
condensation
What is the process that made your cold pumpkins "sweat" on the bus? *Hint: this is what happens when water vapor turns back into a liquid.
500
cold weather
The wind is blowing from the north, bringing arctic air. What kind of weather do you predict?
500
smog
What is the name of the kind of low cloud that comes from a combination of smoke and fog?
500
wet bulb
Which thermometer will show a lower temperature - the one with a dry bulb or the one with a wet bulb?