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Weather Instruments
Clouds
Water Cycle
Vocabulary
Climate
100
This weather instrument measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100
A white or gray mass in the sky that is made of many very small drops of water.
What is a cloud?
100
The four main types of precipitation.
What is rain, snow, sleet, and hail?
100
The place where two air masses meet.
What is a front?
100
The average weather conditions of an area over many years.
What is climate?
200
This weather instrument measures the amount of rain that has fallen over a specific period of time.
What is a rain gauge?
200
A thin and feathery cloud that forms at a high altitude.
What is cirrus clouds?
200
The movement of water into the air as water vapor and back to the Earth's surface as precipitation.
What is the water cycle?
200
A large body of air that has about the same temperature, air pressure, and moisture throughout.
What is an air mass?
200
This climate region is directly north and south of the equator and is typically hot and rainy.
What is a tropical climate?
300
This weather instrument determines the direction the wind is blowing.
What is a wind vane?
300
A large, dark cloud that forms low in the sky.
What is a stratus cloud?
300
Heat from the Sun causes water in oceans, lakes, rivers, etc to change to gas and rise into the air as water vapor.
What is evaporation?
300
The weight of air as it pushes down on Earth's surface.
What is air pressure?
300
This climate region is around the North and South Pole, and typically has very cold temperatures all through the year.
What is a polar climate?
400
This weather instrument measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
400
A globular, puffy cloud that forms at low altitudes but can grow vertically.
What is a cumulus cloud?
400
Water droplets in the clouds become heavy and fall back to Earth's surface.
What is precipitation?
400
The conditions of the atmosphere at a certain place and time.
What is weather?
400
This climate region usually has warm, dry summers and cold, wet winters.
What is a temperate climate?
500
This weather instrument measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
500
A dark cloud of great vertical extent, often associated with thunderstorms.
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
500
Cooled water vapor condenses into water droplets and forms clouds.
What is condensation?
500
The blanket of air that surrounds Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
500
These are four main factors that affect climate.
What is latitude, bodies of water, altitude, and mountains?