Vocabulary Book #29

A prediction or estimate of future events, especially coming weather.

• Weather

• Forecast

• Sun

• Problematic

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

A rate, number, or amount in each hundred.

• Percentage

• Number

• Forecast

• Prediction

A scale for measuring temperature, in which water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees.

• Degrees Celsius

• Degrees Fahrenheit

A scale based on temperature of 0° for the freezing point of water and 100° for the boiling point of water.

• Degrees Celsius

• Degrees Fahrenheit

• Temperature

• Seasonal

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

Tells the temperature.

• Thermometer

• Wind Vane

• Digital fluid

• Boiling point

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

Shows the direction of wind.

• Thermometer

• Wind Vane

• Anemometer

• Digital Fluid

 Contains temperature and pressure data near Earth’s surface. 

• Weather Balloons

• Surface Report

• Upper Air Report

• Temperature

 Records temperature and pressure measurements in the upper part of the atmosphere.

• Surface Report

• Fahrenheit

• Upper Air Report

• Celsius

Will carry instruments that measure the conditions in the upper atmosphere. Let’s see what types of data these instruments collect.

• Weather Balloons

• Data Train

• Weather Forecast

• Wind Vane

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Scientist use it to measure air pressure.

• Barometer

• Thermometer

• Wind Vane

• Thermostat