Unit 7: All About the Weather

What is a cloud?

Stratus cloud

• white and puffy and usually mean sunny weather
• gray and flat and may bring rain or snow
• high in the sky and usually mean sunny weather
• are thunderstorm clouds and are tall and puffy

Cumulonimbus cloud

• white and puffy and usually mean sunny weather
• gray and flat and may bring rain or snow
• high in the sky and usually mean sunny weather
• are thunderstorm clouds and are tall and puffy

Cirrus cloud

• white and puffy and usually mean sunny weather
• gray and flat and may bring rain or snow
• high in the sky and usually mean sunny weather
• are thunderstorm clouds and are tall and puffy

Cumulus cloud

• white and puffy and usually mean sunny weather
• gray and flat and may bring rain or snow
• high in the sky and usually mean sunny weather
• are thunderstorm clouds and are tall and puffy

Which tool can you use to measure how the sun warms Earth?

• rain gauge
• thermometer
• weather vane

How can you best compare the temperature of the air and the temperature of a lake?

• feel each one with your hand
• guess the temperature
• measure each with a thermometer

What is the cycle called?

• the water cycle
• weather cycle
• precipitation cycle

What does a weather pattern show?

• no change in the weather over time
• a weather change that happens once
• a weather change that happens over and over

What is a rain gauge?

• a tool that measures the direction of the wind
• a tool that measures the amount of precipitation that falls.
• a tool that measure the speed of the wind.