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Includes the following:

-Weather Instruments

-Convection, Fronts, Air Pressure, Hurricane, Tornado, Tsunami,

El Nino, Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation, and many more

Key vocabulary words!

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Which weather instrument measures the temperature of the air?

Which weather instrument measures air pressure?

Which weather instrument measures wind speed?

Which weather instrument measures

the amount of rain that has fallen over a specific time period?

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Which weather instrument measures

the relative humidity using the cooling effect of evaporation?

Which weather instrument determines

the direction from which the wind is blowing?

What term describes the average

weather conditions in a certain place or during a certain season?

What term describes the conditions

at a particular time and place, such as temperature and precipitation?



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A layer of gases surrounding a planet is known as a(n) ______________.

The mixture of gases that forms the atmosphere of Earth is known as ____.

What term describes the weight of air pressing down on Earth?

What term describes a visible

collection of tiny water droplets or,

at colder temperatures, ice crystals

floating in the air above the surface of Earth?



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A cloud on the ground that reduces visibility is known as _______.

What is the term used to describe visible air pollution in urban cities? It

looks like dirty fog.

The change of water vapor to liquid

water, as when fog or dew forms is known as __________.

What is the general name for water in any form falling from clouds?



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What is the process of changing a liquid (like water) to a vapor? It’s the

opposite of condensation.

The process by which water in plants is

transferred as water vapor to the

atmosphere is known as ____________.

Name 4 types of precipitation and describe each one.

A scientist who studies and predicts the weather is called a ___________.



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What is the term that describes heat

transfer by warm air or liquid rising and

cooler air or liquid sinking creating a circular current?

The movement of air due to the

uneven heating of the Earth’s surface

is known as _________.

What is the term that describes the amount of water vapor in the air?

A boundary between two different air masses is called a ___________.



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Warmer air moving in and replacing colder air is known as a _____ _____.

Which type of weather front generally does not move very much?

Which type of weather front is a

combination of two fronts that form

when a cold front catches up and overtakes a warm front?

Colder air moving in and replacing warmer air is known as a _____ _____.



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What does the weather symbol below represent?

What does the weather symbol below represent?

What is the name of an intense storm

(usually around 300 miles in diameter)

with swirling winds up to 150 miles per hour?

What is the name of the electronic

instrument that meteorologists use to

detect rain, snow, or other forms of precipitation?



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What is the name of an unusually large

ocean wave (can reach 200 feet tall) caused by an undersea earthquake?

What is name of the theory that states

greenhouse gases are causing the

Earth’s surface temperature to get warmer?

What is the Greenhouse Effect?

A spinning column of air with wind

speeds of up to 300 miles per hour is known as a _________.



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What is the name given to the cooling of the water in the Pacific Ocean?

What term describes a severe lack of

rainfall in an area over a certain time period?

What term describes days of heavy

rain causing rivers to rise over their banks?

What is the name given to the unusual

warming of the water in the Pacific Ocean

causing changes in weather all across the globe?



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Weather:

Task Card Answer Key 1. Thermometer 10. Air

2. Barometer 11. Air Pressure

3. Anemometer 12. Clouds

4. Rain Gauge 13. Fog

5. Sling Psychrometer 14. Smog

6. Wind Vane 15. Condensation

7. Climate 16. Precipitation

8. Weather 17. Evaporation

9. Atmosphere 18. Transpiration


19. Rain- liquid; Snow- white ice crystals; Sleet-

solid in form of ice pellets; Hail- frozen spheres of

precipitation

30. Low Pressure

20. Meteorologist 31. High Pressure

21. Convection 32. Hurricane

22. Wind 33. Tornado

23. Humidity 34. Tsunami

24. Front 35. Global Warming

25. Warm Front 36. A process heating the Earth’s atmosphere.

The Sun’s rays enter the Earth’s atmosphere, but

are not able to easily exit the atmosphere

causing temperatures to warm up.

26. Stationary Front 37. El Nino

27. Occluded Front 38. La Nina

28. Cold Front 39. Drought

29. Radar 40. Flood


Name: _________________ Date: _________

Weather:

Task Card Answer Sheet 1. 10.

2. 11.

3. 12.

4. 13.

5. 14.

6. 15.

7. 16.

8. 17.

9. 18.


19. 30.

20. 31.

21. 32.

22. 33.

23. 34.

24. 35.

25. 36.

26. 37.

27. 38.

28. 39.

29. 40.

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