Weather Vocab. 🌏

Question 1

What is air pressure?

Answer 1

The force that air puts on an area.

Question 2

What is the atmosphere?

Answer 2

Layers of gas that surround a planet.

Question 3

This a tool used to measure air.

Answer 3

A barometer.

Question 4

What is barometric pressure?

Answer 4

The pressure of the atmosphere against an object.

Question 5

What does Celsius mean?

Answer 5

Celsius is a scale on which temperature is measured.On this scale, 0 degrees is freezing, and 100 degrees is boiling.

Question 6

This is a description of the average weather condition in a region over a long period of time. Example the desert has a dry, hot _______, and the rainforest has hot, wet _______ .

Answer 6

Climate.

Question 7

What is a cloud.

Answer 7

Clouds are tiny drops of water in air. These drops get too heavy, they fall to earth as rain.

Question 8

What is a cumulus cloud?

Answer 8

Clouds that look like cotton flat at bottom and round in the top

Question 9

This happens at night when the moisture settles on grass and becomes dew.

Answer 9

Dew point

Question 10

What is a drought?

Answer 10

A long period with no rain

Question 11

What is a freezing point

Answer 11

The state that water needs to be in to freeze

Question 12

This is a storm with strong rain and winds that forms over tropic waters.

Answer 12

A hurricane

Question 13

What is a front?

Answer 13

The boundary between two air masses.

Question 14

This is a rotating funnel shaped cloud that doesn’t touch the ground.

Answer 14

Funnel cloud

Question 15

What is global warming?

Answer 15

The slow change of earth’s warming due to climatic change.

Question 16

These are icy balls that fall from the sky.

Answer 16

Hail.

Question 17

This is the study of weather patterns.

Answer 17

Meteorology.

Question 18

This is rain, sleet, snow, hail, and freezing rain.

Answer 18

Precipitation.

Question 19

What is thunder.

Answer 19

The loud sound that occurs when lightning heats up the air and it expands and contrasts quickly.

Question 20

What is a thunderstorm.

Answer 20

A weather system that produces heavy wind, rain, and lightning.

Question 21

This is a funnel shaped column of cloud or air that rotates and causes mass destruction.

Answer 21

Tornado.

Question 22

The measure of how wet the air is.

Answer 22

Humidity

Question 23

A region of low air pressure with counter-clockwise rotation.

Answer 23

Tropic depression.

Question 24

A hurricane or tropic storm that starts in the tropics.

Answer 24

Typhoon

Question 25

The state of precipitation, temperature, wind speed, and humidity.

Answer 25

Weather

Question 26

What is a cumulonimbus cloud?

Answer 26

An anvil shaped storm cloud. (Also called thunderheads)