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Weather Instruments
Fronts
Clouds
Storms
Weather Factors
100
used to measure temperature
What is a thermometer
100
A large body of air that has the same temperature and humidity
What is an air mass?
100
These are the four types of precipitation
What are rain, snow, sleet, and hail?
100
These storms occur when warm, moist air rises very quickly and cools, producing rain, lightening and thunder
What is a thunderstorm?
100
This is how hot or cold something is
What is temperature?
200
This instrument is used to measure wind speed
What is an anemometer?
200
This front occurs when a fast moving cold air mass pushes a warm air mass up quickly
What is a cold front?
200
These clouds look like a blanket covering the sky and often bring light rain or snow
What are stratus clouds?
200
These are the largest storms on Earth
What is a hurricane?
200
The amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
300
This instrument is used to measure the amount of precipitation that has fallen
What is a rain gauge?
300
The border between two air masses
What is a front?
300
These clouds are wispy and formed of ice crystals high in the sky
What are cirrus clouds?
300
This is where a hurricane forms as it takes in lots of moisture and heat
What is over the ocean?
300
The weight of air pressing down on Earth
What is air pressure?
400
This instrument is used to measure air pressure
What is a barometer?
400
This front occurs when a warm air slides up over a cold air mass
What is a warm front?
400
These white, puffy clouds bring fair weather
What are cumulus clouds?
400
A spinning funnel of air that reaches from the bottom of a thundercloud to the ground
What is a tornado?
400
Cool air has ________ air pressure than warm air
What is less?
500
This person uses weather instruments to help predict the weather
What is a meteorologist?
500
This front can cause a strong, brief storm, followed by cooler, drier weather
What is a cold front?
500
These clouds grow large and bring thunderstorms
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
500
Most tornadoes form in these parts of the United States
What is the Midwest and the South?
500
The higher your elevation the _____________ the air pressure
What is lower?