Weather

Tools

100

Measures the direction of the wind

Wind vane

200

Measures the amount of precipitation 

rain gauge

300

measures air temperature

Thermometer 

400

Measures wind speed 

Anemometer

500

Measures air pressure

Barometer

Water Cycle

100

rain, snow, sleet or hail

precipitation

200

Water vapor changing to liquid

condensation

300

liquid becoming water vapor

evaporation

400

this invisible gas is formed during evaporation

water vapor

500

This provides the energy needed for water to move through the water cycle 

the Sun 

Clouds

100

This cloud forms near the ground

fog

200

These are massive thunderstorm clouds

cumulonimbus 

300

these clouds cover the sky in a sheet of gray.  Smooth and gray =( 

stratus

400

these are big a fluffy white clouds associated with fair weather 

cumulus

500

feathery like clouds that are made up of ice crystals 

cirrus 

Storms

100

storms associated with thunder and lightning

thunderstorms 

200

these storms form over the ocean and have a calm spot in the middle 

hurricanes 

300

violent funnel shaped storms

tornadoes 

400

A hurricane begins as this storm 

tropical depression/ tropical storm 

500

A tornado is called this until it touches the ground 

funnel cloud 

Precipitation

100

precipitation that happens when growing cloud droplets become too heavy to remain in the cloud

rain

200

ice crystals that have collected with each other as they fall to the ground 

snow

300

frozen raindrops that bounce on impact with a surface 

sleet

400

round pieces of ice that can fall as large as a softball

hail

500

precipitation that freezes with any surface that is below freezing 

freezing rain