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Weather vocabulary
Weather Bloopers
How weather-wise are you?
Cross out the weather word in each sentence
that doesn’t make sense.
Write the correct weather word in the cloud.
Use the answer bank.
1. A prediction about the weather is called a weather observation.
2. The atmosphere warms the earth.
3. During a storm you might see lightning and hear snowflakes.
4. When water freezes, it changes to fog.
5. Cirrus, stratus, and cumulus are types of frost.
6. A thermometer is an instrument for measuring rainfall.
7. Moving air is called snow.
8. A person who studies weather is called a barometer.
9. Hail is a cloud that touches the ground.
10. After the rain shower a colorful hurricane filled the sky.
11. Water freezes more rapidly in the sun.
12. Sleet, wind, hail, and snow are all kinds of precipitation.
clouds
Fog
temperature
meteorologist
Word
Bank
evaporates
forecast
rain
thunder
sun
ice
wind
rainbow
Bonus Box: What is your favorite kind of weather? On the back of this sheet, draw and color a picture of yourself
doing what you like to do most in your favorite kind of weather.
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Answer Key
forecast
1. A prediction about the weather is called a weather observation.
2. The atmosphere warms the earth.
sun
3. During a storm you might see lightning and hear snowflakes.
4. When water freezes, it changes to fog.
thunder
ice
5. Cirrus, stratus, and cumulus are types of frost.
clouds
6. A thermometer is an instrument for measuring rainfall. temperature
7. Moving air is called snow.
wind
8. A person who studies weather is called a barometer. meteorologist
9. Hail is a cloud that touches the ground.
Fog
10. After the rain shower a colorful hurricane filled the sky.
rainbow
11. Water freezes more rapidly in the sun. evaporates
12. Sleet, wind, hail, and snow are all kinds of precipitation.
rain