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Weather tools vocab
6th grade Vocabulary about Weather tools and clouds vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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cumulus | puffy with flat bottoms and round tops that signal fair weather |
cirrus | wispy, feathery clouds made of ice crystals that form at high levels |
stratus | clouds that form in flat layers and often cover much of the sky |
nimbus | a rain cloud |
fog | a stratus cloud that forms when air is cooled to its dew point near the ground |
anemomenter | an instrument used to measure wind speed |
wind vane | an instrument used to measure temperature |
thermometer | tool made of a wet and dry thermometer that measures relative humidity and requires a table to interpret the two tempetures |
sling psychrometer | an instrument that measures atmospheric pressure |
barometer | an instrument used to measure precipitation |
rain guage | a map that uses symbols to show weather data |
weather map | type of satellite that is primarily used to monitor the weather and climate of the earth |
weather satellites | is an instrument that spends pulses of electromagnetic energy into the atmosphere to find precipitation, determine its motion and intensity and identify the perciptation type such as rain, snow or hail |
weather radar | line on a map connecting points having the same barometric reading at a given time |
lsobar | a line on a weather map that joins place have the same temperature |
isotherm | are thunderstorm clouds. high winds can flatten the top of a cloud into an anvil- like shape. cumulonious clouds are associated with heavy rain, snow hail lighting and even tornadoes. the anvil usually points in the direction the storm is moving. |
cumulonimbus | the amount of water vapor in the air at any given time is usually less than that required to saturate the air. expressed as a percentage |
relative humidity | the amount of water vapor in the air at any given time is usually less than that required to saturate the air. expreesed as a percentage |