Weather instruments

Match the following

• barometer

• 
• rain/snow gauge

• 
• wind vane

• 

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Match the following

• thermometer

• 
• hydrometer

• 
• anemometer

• 

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Measures air pressure.

-Tells you whether the air pressure is rising or falling.

• barometer

• thermometer

• rain gauge

• wind vane

Measures wind direction (where the wind is blowing from).

• anemometer

• barometer

• wind vane

• hydrometer

when something turns or spins around a point located at its center

• spin

• rotation

• clockwise

• counter clockwise

the middle of the day

• sunrise

• sunset

• noon

• midnight

Tags

NGSS.5-ESS1-2

an imaginary line an object turns around.

• axis

• clockwise

• counter clockwise

• rotation

Measures wind speed (how fast it is blowing).

-Made of small cups and a vertical shaft.

• thermometer

• barometer

• anemometer

• hydrometer

-Measures humidity.

-Measures the amount of vapour in the air.

• anemometer

• wind vane

• rain gauge

• hydrometer

in the direction in which the hands of a clock turn.

• spin

• clockwise

• rotation

• counter clockwise