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Weather Vocabulary Quiz Worksheet

Directions: Match the vocabulary words on the left with the definitions on the right.

1. humidity a powerful cyclonic storm that originates in the West Indian region of the Atlantic Ocean and that has heavy rains and winds exceeding seventy-three miles, or 119 kilometers, per hour.
2. barometer natural electricity produced in thunderstorm clouds and appearing as a bright flash or streak of light in the sky.
3. rain dampness or moistness, as of the atmosphere.
4. snow an instrument for measuring temperature, esp. a sealed glass tube with a calibrated scale on the outside and a column of liquid, usu. mercury, inside that rises or falls as the temperature changes .
5. hurricane a meteorological instrument that measures atmospheric pressure, esp. used to predict weather changes.
6. lightning a frozen form of precipitation that falls as ice crystals formed into flakes.
7. freezing water vapor in the atmosphere that condenses and falls from the sky to earth.
8. thermometer to predict (the weather).
9. sunny a brief electrical storm usu. accompanied by heavy rain and high winds.
10. forecast exposed to or warmed by sunlight, esp. during much of each day.
11. foggy at or near the temperature at which water turns to ice.
12. warm a very destructive but short-lived windstorm in the form of a funnel-shaped cloud that moves close to the ground destroying whatever is in its path.
13. tornado full of or covered by dense clouds.
14. thunderstorm having a great or excessive amount of wind; characterized by wind.
15. winter having or emitting moderate heat.
16. windy characterized by the presence of clouds; overcast.
17. clear the season of the year between autumn and spring, in the northern hemisphere continuing from the December solstice to the March equinox.
18. cloudy moderately cold; not warm.
19. cool free of darkness, clouds, or haze.

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