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This is used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100
Clouds are formed by this process.
What is condensation?
100
This is the boundary between two air masses.
What is a front?
100
A scientist who studies the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
100
This is the constant movement of water from Earth to the atmosphere and back to Earth.
What is the water cycle?
200
This tool measures the direction the wind is blowing.
What is a wind vane?
200
This type of cloud appears feathery and wispy and is the highest in the atmosphere.
What is a cirrus cloud?
200
This front is shown on a weather map as a line with triangles in the direction that it is moving.
What is a cold front?
200
This scientist invented the temperature scale that most of the world and scientists use today.
Who is Anders Celsius?
200
This is what air pressure is measure in.
What are millibars?
300
This tool measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
300
This type of cloud looks heaped up and puffy.
What is a cumulus cloud?
300
This front is shown on a weather map as a line with half circles on the side that the front is moving.
What is a warm front?
300
This admiral in the British Navy invented a way to estimate wind speed.
Who is Sir Franics Beaufort?
300
This is the state of the atmosphere at a certain place and time.
What is weather?
400
This tool measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
400
These gray and layered clouds are gray and often mean light rain.
What is a stratus cloud?
400
A large L on a weather map indicatetes this.
What is low pressure?
400
This scientist invented a temperature scale that is used in the United States.
Who is Gabriel Fahrenheit?
400
This is a tool that measures rain.
What is a rain gauge?
500
This tool measures the humidity (water vapor) in the air.
What is a hygrometer?
500
This is water in any form that falls from clouds to the Earth.
What is precipitation?
500
A large H on a weather map shows this type of pressure.
What is an area of high pressure.
500
Meteorologists study this part of the atmosphere, because it is where most of the weather is takinig place.
What is the trophosphere?
500
This is a tool used to measure snow.
What is a snow board?