Cloud Types & Weather Instruments

Non stormy weather and mostly clear skies is which type of weather?

• temperature

• fair weather

• blizzard

• stormy

Match this definition with the correct vocabulary term:

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

• storm

• fair weather

• cloud

• rain

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Which cloud type is this:

White, puffy clouds that look like pieces of floating cotton. Cumulus clouds are often called "fair-weather clouds". The base of each cloud is flat and the top of each cloud has rounded towers.

• Cirrus

• Cumulus

• Stratus

• Storm clouds

Which cloud type is this:

Clouds that form in flat layers and associated with storms.

• Cirrus

• Cumulus

• Stratus

• Storm clouds

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Which cloud type is this:

Wispy, feathery clouds made of ice crystals that form at high levels.

• Cirrus

• Cumulus

• Stratus

• Storm clouds

This tool measures the temperature outside? It has both Fahrenheit and Celsius information.

• rain gauge

• wind vane

• thermometer

• anemometer

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

8.) This tool measures how much rain has fallen.

• rain gauge

• barometer

• wind vane

• anemometer

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

This tool measures how fast the wind is blowing.

• wind vane

• anemometer

• barometer

• thermometer

This tool measures the direction the wind is blowing from.

• wind vane

• rain gauge

• anemometer

• thermometer

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

This tool measures the air pressure and helps predict the weather.

• wind vane

• barometer

• rain gauge

• thermometer.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5