| A | B |
|---|
| temperature | How hot or cold something is. |
| weather vane | A weather instrument that shows the direction that the wind is coming from. |
| drought | A long period of extremely dry weather. |
| fahrenheit | Standard English unit for measurement. |
| precipitation | Water that falls to the Earth’s surface from clouds as rain, snow, sleet or hail. |
| thermometer | Instrument that is used to measure temperature. |
| hail | Large frozen raindrops formed during a thunderstorm. |
| weather | What is happening outside in the air around us. |
| rain gauge | A weather instrument used to measure the amount of rainfall. |
| flood | When land that is usually dry is covered with water. |
| celsius | Metric measurement unit for temperature. |
| meteorologist | A scientist who studies weather is called |
| thunderstorm | This storm has heavy rain, thunder, lightning and sometimes hail. |
| tornado | A rotating area of wind that forms out of strong thunderstorms. |
| hurricane | A very large and violent tropical storm that forms over warm oceans. |
| blizzard | This storm has strong wind, low temperatures and snow. |
| eye | Center of a hurricane. |
| Seasons | Weather changes that happen at different times of the year. |
| Erosion | The movement of weathered materials by water, wind, ice or gravity. |
| sleet | Falling rain or snow that change into small grains of ice during the Winter. |
| lightning | Formed from electrical charges in the clouds. |
| Thunder | The sound that lightning makes. |
| Tornado Alley | Where twisters occur in the USA. Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri. |
| weathering | Breaking down and wearing away of rocks and minerals caused by water, ice, wind, plants and changing temp. |
| Water freezes | At 0 degrees Celsius and 32 degrees Fehrenheit. |
| Water boils | At 100 degrees Celsius and 212 degrees Fahrenheit |
