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Weather Instruments
Misc Weather
Water Cycle
Clouds
Bodies of Water
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an instrument to record the amount of rainfall in a given area
What is a rain gauge?
100
a liquid that falls from the sky
What is rain?
100
precipitation that runs off Earth's surface into rivers, lakes, and oceans
What is runoff?
100
high feathery clouds that usually mean a change in weather is on the way
What are cirrus clouds?
100
a type of water that does not move like a puddle
What is stationary water?
200
an instrument for measuring temperature
What is thermometer?
200
the temperature in the clouds is below freezing producing a freezing rain
What is sleet, snow or hail?
200
when water turns from a liquid to a gas during heating
What is evaporation?
200
thick, gray clouds that often bring rain
What are stratus clouds?
200
bodies of water that are a lake, spring or river
What is fresh water?
300
an instrument that measures air pressure
What is a barometer?
300
the layer of the atmosphere where weather occurs
What is the troposphere?
300
water in the form of a gas
What is water vapor?
300
puffy white clouds
What are cumulus clouds?
300
the largest body of water, taking up 71% of the earth's surface
What is is the ocean?
400
an instrument that measures wind speed
What is anemometer?
400
a scientist that studies weather
What is a meteorologist?
400
the process of water vapor (a gas) changing into a liquid through cooling usually forming a cloud
What is condensation?
400
tall cumulus clouds that bring thunderstorms
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
400
they are both salt water but one is much larger than the other
What is the difference between a sea and the ocean?
500
an instrument that measures the amount of humidity in the air
What is hygrometer?
500
the two closest layers of the atmosphere
What is the troposphere and the stratosphere?
500
can be in the form of rain, sleet, snow or hail
What is precipitation?
500
puffy white clouds that are located high in the sky
What are altocumulus clouds
500
A solid body of water located close to the poles
What is a glacier?