Weather v Climate
This vocab word is described as the day-to-day variation of the atmosphere’s condition locally.
What is weather?
This instrument measures the air temperature.
What is a thermometer?
Heat from the Sun causes water to do this from oceans, lakes and streams.
What is evaporate?
This type of cloud gives us the warning it could rain.
What is nimbo stratus?
On Earth, you can find water in all three states of matter.
What are solid, liquid, and gas?
This word is the year-by-year variation of the atmosphere’s condition over a large area.
What is climate?
This devices measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
When a cloud becomes full of liquid water, it falls from the sky as rain or snow.
What is precipitation?
This object is made up of frozen crystals or tiny droplets of water,
What are clouds?
This is a navigational instrument for finding directions.
What is a compass?
This person's job is to make predictions of the weather.
Who is a meteorologist?
A tool to measure the amount of rain that has fallen in a period of time.
What is a rain gauge?
About 97% of our water is found here.
What are oceans?
Cirrus, Cirrocumulus, and cirrostratus are all examples of this type of cloud.
What are high clouds?
The amount of our water found in lakes, rivers, and streams.
What is 2%?
True/False
Weather and Climate are the same thing.
What is false?
This is an instrument that helps tell you the direction from which the wind is blowing.
What is a wind vane?
As the water vapor rises higher and higher, the cool air of the atmosphere causes the water vapor to turn back into liquid water, creating clouds.
What is condensation?
This word means mean rain.
What is nimbus?
Another name for the water that we drink.
What is groundwater?
This man is the Chief Meteorologist for the WDIO news team out of Duluth.
Who is Justin Liles?
This kids party accessory measures weather conditions higher up in the atmosphere.
What is a weather balloon?
The process of water from plants and trees also enters the atmosphere.
What is transpiration?
What is gray?
The cups catch the wind, turning a dial attached to the instrument. The dial shows the wind speed.
What is anemometer?