Weather Instruments
This instrument is used to measure the amount of rain fall.
What is a rain gauge?
This is fine particles of mist or steam that can be seen hanging in the air.
What is water vapor?
This is a high fluffy cloud.
This is the condition of the outside air or atmosphere at a particular time and place.
What is weather?
This is the changing of a gas or vapor into its liquid form.
What is condensation?
This insturment is used to measure the wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
This is the continuous process by which water is circulated throughout the Earth and its atmosphere.
What is the hydrologic cycle?
This is a high cloud that is wispy.
What is a cirrus?
This is the forward edge of a mass of air.
What is a front?
This a a lower fluffy cloud with flat bases.
What is a cumulus?
This instrument is used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
The is the act of a liquid changing into a vapor or gas.
What is evaporation?
This is a dark, gray, mid-altitude cloud that often covers the entire sky and produces precipitation.
What is a nimbostratus?
This is the degree of warmness or coldness in something.
What is temperature?
This is the mixture of gases that surrounds a planet.
What is the atmosphere?
This instrument is used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
This is a form of water, such as rain, snow or sleet, that condenses from the atmosphere, becomes too heavy to remain suspended, and falls to the Earth's surface.
What is precipitation?
This is a cloud of mist near the ground.
What is fog?
This is the amount of moisture in the air.
What is humidity?
This is the force exerted onto a surface by the weight of the air.
What is air pressure?
This instrument is used to forecast the weather.
What is a barometer?
This is the constant movement of the Earth's water.
What is the water cycle?
This is a low-altitude cloud formation consisting of a horizontal layer of gray clouds that sometimes produce drizzle or light rain.
What is a stratus?