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Weather Instruments
Weather Symbols
Vocabulary
Severe Weather
The Water Cycle
100
This instrument measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
100
On a weather map, this is symbolized by an H.
What is high air pressure?
100
This is a person who studies weather patterns.
What is a meteorologist?
100
What type of weather storm consists of rapidly falling snow?
What is a blizzard?
100
This part of the water cycle is where liquid water turns into water vapor because of the sun's heat.
What is evaporation?
200
This instrument measures the direction and speed of wind in miles per hour.
What is an anemometer?
200
This type of front is symbolized by having curved bumps on it.
What is a warm front?
200
These are the damaging rays from the sun.
What are ultraviolet (UV) rays?
200
An overflow of rain water.
What is a flood?
200
When water vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into liquid form, forming clouds.
What is condensation?
300
This instrument measure how hot or cold something is.
What is a thermometor?
300
This type of front is symbolized by having jagged edges on it, like these: ^, >, <.
What is a cold front?
300
A storm with very strong wind and rain that is formed in the tropics.
What is a hurricane?
300
Ice crystals on a frozen surface.
What is frost?
300
This is the part of the water cycle when clouds get too heavy and water falls back to the earth in the form of rain, hail, sleet or snow.
What is precipitation?
400
This measures the amount of rain that has fallen over a specific time period.
What is a rain gauge?
400
With this percentage of cloud coverage, the circle is 25% white.
What is a 75% cloud cover?
400
An extremely hot burst of weather that is much higher than average. This usually lasts a short time.
What is a heat wave?
400
This is the moisture in the air.
What is humidity?
400
Where water collects in rivers, lakes, oceans, or others large bodies of water.
What is collection?
500
This weather instrument measures the size of hail that falls during a storm.
What is a hail pad?
500
The wind direction is southwest, so where is the wind coming from?
Southwest
500
This is when no sun is visible.
What is an overcast?
500
A long period with no rainfall.
What is a drought?
500
This is when the water moves downward through openings in the soil.
What is percolation?