Weather Jeopardy

Instruments Predictions WaterCycle

Cloud Types

Big Picture

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100 – Instruments

• An instrument to record the amount of rainfall in a given area.

100 - Predictions

• Liquid that falls from the sky when a cloud becomes saturated…

100 Water Cycle• Large body of warm

or cold air…

100 Cloud Types

• High feathery clouds that usually mean a change in weather is on the way…

100 Big Picture• Layers of air around the Earth

200 Instruments• An instrument for measuring temperature

200 Predictions

• Frozen rain

200 Water Cycle

• When water turns from a liquid to a gas during heating

200 Cloud Types

• Thick gray clouds that often bring rain

200 Big Picture

• The temperature at which tiny drops form when water vapor condenses

300 Instruments

• An instrument that measures air pressure

300 Predictions• When water vapor forms ice on or near the

Earth’s surface.

300 Water Cycle

• The movement of air from one place to another…

300 Cloud Types

• Puffy white clouds

300 Big Picture

• A craft that orbits the Earth and assists in weather forecasting…

400 - Instruments

• An instrument that measures wind speed

400 Predictions

• A giant swirling storm that brings rain and heavy winds

400 Water Cycle

• When ice turns directly into water vapor (a gas)

400 Cloud Types • Tall cumulus clouds that bring

thunderstorms

400 Big PictureWhen a cold air mass collides with a warm air mass

creating rain…