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Instruments
Clouds
Storms
Vocabulary
Forecast
100
Measures temperature
What is a thermometer?
100
Clouds are made of this
What is water?
100
The movement of air
What is wind?
100
The blanket of air surrounding the Earth
What is the atmosphere?
100
Rain, snow, sleet, and hail are types of
What is precipitation?
200
Measures air pressure
What is a barometer?
200
High clouds made of ice crystals
What are cirrus clouds?
200
These happen in the summer and involve rain, wind, thunder, and lightning when moist air warms and rises
What are thunderstorms?
200
A high pressure area usually brings
What is fair weather (or happy weather)?
200
During the summer in Virginia, these are the two types of precipitation we'll most likely see
What are rain and hail?
300
Measures humidity
What is a hygrometer?
300
Fog is an example of this blanket-like layered cloud
What is a stratus cloud?
300
These are the largest and most powerful storms that start over water
What are hurricanes?
300
A person who studies weather
What is a meteorologist?
300
% of this is the amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
400
Measures wind direction
What is a weather vane?
400
Puffy, heap-like clouds that indicate fair weather
What are cumulus clouds?
400
These storms involve warm air temperature, a twisting column of air, a funnel-shaped cloud, hail and rain
What are tornadoes?
400
The push of air against its surroundings
What is air pressure?
400
When a warm air mass moves into a cold air mass
What is a warm front?
500
Measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
500
Person who gave the clouds their Latin names
Who was Luke Howard?
500
The calm center of a hurricane is called this
What is the eye?
500
The layer of the atmosphere where most weather happens
What is the troposphere?
500
When rain freezes and turns to ice as it falls from the clouds
What is sleet?