Cloud Types & Weather Measurement Tools

What tool is used to measure air temperature?

• thermometer

• anemometer

• barometer

• tacometer

What does a rain gauge measure?

• speed of rainfall

• amount of rainfall

• type of precipitation

• temperature of water

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

What does a weather vane, or wind vane, show?

• speed of the wind

• amount of rainfall

• direction the wind is going

• direction the wind is coming from

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Which tool measures the speed of wind, how fast the wind is traveling?

• weather vane

• barometer

• anemometer

• thermometer

What does a barometer measure?

• air direction

• air speed

• air temperature

• air pressure

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

These low clouds look like a blanket. They are associated with fog and rain, sometimes.

• stratus

• cumulus

• cumulonimbus

• cirrus

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Cumulus clouds mean that you...

• need an umbrella! It's going to rain.

• will probably have a fair, nice weather day.

• should watch out for thunderstorms.

• find shelter. A hurricane is coming!

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Which type for cloud is in all layers of the atmosphere and brings thunderstorms?

• cirrus

• stratus

• cumulonimbus

• cumulus

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Which type of cloud has ice crystals, because it's so high in the atmosphere?

• cumulonimbus

• cumulus

• stratus

• cirrus