Weather Vocabulary Quiz

What is the study of weather called?

• Meteorology

• Climate

• Precipitation

• Anemometer

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

What does weather refer to?

• Study of weather

• Weather found in a place over a long period of time

• Liquid frozen or water that forms in the atmosphere and falls to earth

• What is happening in the sky and atmosphere

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

What is climate?

• Study of weather

• What is happening in the sky and atmosphere

• Weather found in a place over a long period of time

• Liquid frozen or water that forms in the atmosphere and falls to earth

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

What is precipitation?

• What is happening in the sky and atmosphere

• Liquid frozen or water that forms in the atmosphere and falls to earth

• Weather found in a place over a long period of time

• Study of weather

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

What does a rain gauge measure?

• Pressure

• Direction of the wind

• Wind speed

• Amount of rain that has fallen

What does an anemometer measure?

• Pressure

• Wind speed

• Amount of rain that has fallen

• Direction of the wind

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

What does a barometer measure?

• Wind speed

• Pressure

• Amount of rain that has fallen

• Direction of the wind

What does a wind vane tell?

• Direction of the wind

• Pressure

• Wind speed

• Amount of rain that has fallen

What does a meteorologist study?

• Weather

• Pressure

• Wind speed

• Amount of rain that has fallen

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

What is the instrument that measures wind speed called?

• Precipitation

• Meteorology

• Climate

• Anemometer