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Weather Instruments
Clouds
The Water Cycle
Winds
Vocabulary
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wind vane
What is used to measure wind direction?
100
These are low flat sheets of cloud covering much of the sky
What are stratus clouds?
100
This is any moisture that falls from the sky.
What is precipitation?
100
This causes wind
What is the mixing of warm and cold air?
100
The general conditions in a very small area are known as
What is a microclimate?
200
This instrument is used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
200
These big white puffy clouds often lead us to imagine different shapes.
What are cumulus clouds?
200
Water on Earth returns to the atmosphere during this process.
What is evaporation?
200
Land breezes and sea breezes are examples of this type of wind.
What are local winds?
200
The weight of air
What is air pressure?
300
This weather instrument is used to measure wind speed.
What is an Anemometer?
300
These clouds are found high in the sky and often contain ice crystals.
What are cirrus clouds?
300
This process causes clouds to form.
What is condensation?
300
Global winds that blow constantly in the same direction
What are prevailing winds?
300
A temporary climate change in the Pacific
What is El Nino?
400
Scientists use this instrument to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
400
These clouds often bring thunderstorms?
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
400
This process causes the water in the ocean to be more salty in some places and less salty in others.
What is evaporation?
400
a scale used to estimate wind speed through observation was developed by
Who is Beaufort?
400
The amount if moisture in the air is called
What is humidity?
500
Humidity in the atmosphere is measured with this.
What is a hygrometer?
500
This funnel shaped cloud causes major destruction.
What is a tornado?
500
During condensation this physical change occurs.
What is water vapor (a gas) changing back to a liquid.
500
This causes prevailing winds to travel in opposite directions on either side of the equator
What is the Earth's rotation?
500
An abnormal rise in the Earth's average temperature
What is global warming?