Weather is for a certain place or time.
Climate is the atmosphere conditions over a long period of time.
How do we distinguish between weather and climate?
100
A weather instrument that measures the temperature of air.
What is a thermometer?
100
Water evaporates from lakes, streams, rivers, and oceans.
What happens to water daily on earth?
100
Process by which water goes in a continuous cycle: evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
What is the water cycle?
100
Blue pennant is the symbol of a cold front.
What is symbol of a cold front on a weather map?
200
This weather instrument is used to measure rainfall.
What is the use of a rain gauge?
200
Rain, Sleet, Snow & Hail
What are forms of precipitation?
200
Wind Vane
What is weather instrument that tells which way the wind is coming from?
200
Water must be cooled to change from a gas to a liquid and then to a solid.
How does water change from a gas to a liquid to a solid?
200
With this type pressure you have rain or snow.
What kind of weather do you have with a low pressure?
300
Solids, Liquids, & Gases
What three forms does water take on our earth?
300
Yes. Water that was on Earth a million years ago is still being recycled today.
Do we drink the same water that was on earth a million years ago?
300
During the water cycle water evaporates and goes up into the atmosphere where water molecules cling on to particles in the air.
How are clouds formed?
300
L is the symbol of a low pressure on a weather map.
What is the symbol of a Low Pressure on a weather map?
300
Water goes in a cycle yes it does.
Water goes in a cycle yes it does.
It goes up as evaporation, forms
clouds as condensation, falls as precipitation,
Yes it does!
What is the water cycle song?
400
Water is evaporated into the air and the wind blows the rain clouds to other parts of the earth during these conditions.
Where does water go during a drought?
400
Ice is warmed and turns to a liquid. A liquid is heated and turned into a gas.
How does water change from a solid to a liquid to a gas?
400
Using radar and weather instruments, meteorologist are able to get very close to an accurate forecast. It is not always 100% correct.
How do we know a weather forecast is accurate?
400
Red low hills = a warm front on a weather map.
What is the symbol of a warm front on a weather map?
400
West to East across the U.S.
What is the direction to which weather moves across the U.S.?
500
Weather symbols help us to understand the weather conditions in areas across the Earth.
Why do we use symbols on a weather map?
500
Measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
500
This letter stands for a high pressure system of air which is sunny weather.
What does an H mean on a weather map?
500
With this type pressure you have sunny weather.
What is the weather associated with a high pressure?
500
Cold fronts and Warm Fronts move in the direction they are pointing.
What is the direction do cold fronts and warm fronts move?