Weather unit review

What is an instrument used to measure wind speed?

• Anemometer
• Rain Gauge
• Thermometer
• Wind Vane

A collection of small water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air, which forms when the air is cooled and condensation occurs

• Cloud

• Wind

• Front

• runoff

A front where cold air moves in under a warm air mass.

• cold front

• warm front

• low pressure

• high pressure

Gas that makes up more than 3/4 of air or 78%

• Oxygen
• Carbon Dioxide
• Nitrogen

Any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches Earth's surface as rain, snow, sleet, or hail

• Evaporation
• Precipitation
• Condensation
• Runoff

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Part of the water cycle where an excess of water runs down and does not sink into the soil and eventually makes it to the rivers, lakes, and oceans.

• Evaporation
• Condensation
• Precipitation
• Runoff

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

A destructive, rotating column of air that has very high wind speeds and that may be visible as a funnel-shaped cloud

• Thunderstorm
• Hurricane
• Heavy Rain
• Tornado

What does this tool measure?

• wind direction
• wind seed
• zoo this way
• ocean current

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

A low pressure system means we might have this weather.

• Sunny 
• A clear sky
• Dry day
• Stormy or wet

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

This tool photographs clouds and sends data to meteorologists.

• camera
• iPhone 5
• satellite
• radar

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5