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Spanish Easy Review Quiz - Science - The Weather Forecast (Questions)

This Spanish Easy Review science quiz will test you on the vocabulary of the weather forecast. Do you remember what you call a person who studies the weather? They are a meteorologist. In Spanish, that is a (el/la) meteorólogo/a (phonetically pronounced as māy-tāy-ŏr-ō-lō-gō / māy tāy ŏr ō lō gă).

Some of you may be interested in learning about the weather and how to be able to determine what the weather will be in the future. What would make it even more interesting is to be able to forecast the weather in two different languages.

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You know the words to use in English so now let’s learn some of the words in Spanish. Your weather, science vocabulary list includes.

English	Spanish	Pronounced (Phonetically) As
cloud	(la) nube	new-bāy
cloudy	nublado/a	new-blă-dō / new-blă-dă
cold	frío / a	frē-ō / frē-ă
heat	calor	că-lŏr
hot	caliente	că-lē-ěn-tāy
hurricane	(el) huracán	hŭ-ră-cărn
lightning	(el) relámpago	rāy-lăm-pă-gō
rain	(la) lluvia	you-vē-ă
rainbow	(el) arco iris	ăr-kō ē-rēs
sky	(el) cielo	sē-ā-lō
snow	(la) nieve	nē-ě-vāy
snowflake	(el) copo de nieve	kō-pō dāy nē-ě-vāy
storm	(la) tormenta	tŏr-měn-tă
sun	(el) sol	sōle
sunny	soleado	sōle-ā-ăr-dō
thunder	(el) trueno	trū-ā-nō
tornado	(el) tornado	tŏr-nă-dō
weather	(el) tiempo	tē-ěm-pō
wind	(el) viento	vē-ěn-tō

That’s quite a few new vocabulary words to remember but you can take as much time as you need to make certain that you can quickly recall them. Notice that the words that do not show a definite article before them are adjectives. Adjectives will take on either a feminine or masculine form depending upon which noun they are describing. Now, let’s see if you can forecast the weather in Spanish.

Below there are ten sentences with a weather word capitalized. From the answers provided, see if you can match the correct Spanish weather word to the capitalized word.

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It looks like it will be CLOUDY today.

[ ]	lluvia
[ ]	nublado
[ ]	viento
[ ]	soleado

My little brother hates the sound of THUNDER.

[ ]	viento
[ ]	cielo
[ ]	trueno
[ ]	calor

Florida might get hit by a category two HURRICANE.

[ ]	copo de nieve
[ ]	relámpago
[ ]	tormenta
[ ]	huracán

The SKY is clear today!

[ ]	cielo
[ ]	nieve
[ ]	sol
[ ]	nube

The weatherman said that we should stay out of the extreme HEAT.

[ ]	caliente
[ ]	tiempo
[ ]	calor
[ ]	sol

Candice was so happy that it was SUNNY on her wedding day!

[ ]	viento
[ ]	lluvia
[ ]	relámpago
[ ]	soleado

Richard finds LIGHTNING to be very fascinating!

[ ]	relámpago
[ ]	arco iris
[ ]	viento
[ ]	tormenta

There wasn’t a single CLOUD in the sky.

[ ]	frío
[ ]	nube
[ ]	nieve
[ ]	arco iris

I’d better wear a coat today because it is going to be COLD.

[ ]	sol
[ ]	caliente
[ ]	viento
[ ]	frío

10.

Will you check to see what the WEATHER will be today?

[ ]	viento
[ ]	copo de nieve
[ ]	tiempo
[ ]	trueno

Spanish Easy Review Quiz - Science - The Weather Forecast (Answers)

It looks like it will be CLOUDY today.

[ ]	lluvia
[x]	nublado
[ ]	viento
[ ]	soleado

Cloudy is an adjective and will take on the gender of the noun. As you do not know the gender here, the word will use the masculine form. The Spanish word for cloudy is nublado.

My little brother hates the sound of THUNDER.

[ ]	viento
[ ]	cielo
[x]	trueno
[ ]	calor

The Spanish weather word for thunder is trueno.

Florida might get hit by a category two HURRICANE.

[ ]	copo de nieve
[ ]	relámpago
[ ]	tormenta
[x]	huracán

The Spanish weather word for hurricane is huracán.

The SKY is clear today!

[x]	cielo
[ ]	nieve
[ ]	sol
[ ]	nube

The Spanish weather word for sky is cielo.

The weatherman said that we should stay out of the extreme HEAT.

[ ]	caliente
[ ]	tiempo
[x]	calor
[ ]	sol

The Spanish weather word for heat is calor.

Candice was so happy that it was SUNNY on her wedding day!

[ ]	viento
[ ]	lluvia
[ ]	relámpago
[x]	soleado

Sunny is an adjective and will take on the gender of the noun. As you do not know the gender here, the word will use the masculine form. The Spanish word for sunny is soleado.

Richard finds LIGHTNING to be very fascinating!

[x]	relámpago
[ ]	arco iris
[ ]	viento
[ ]	tormenta

The Spanish weather word for lightning is relámpago.

There wasn’t a single CLOUD in the sky.

[ ]	frío
[x]	nube
[ ]	nieve
[ ]	arco iris

The Spanish weather word for cloud is nube.

I’d better wear a coat today because it is going to be COLD.

[ ]	sol
[ ]	caliente
[ ]	viento
[x]	frío

The Spanish weather word for cold is frío.

10.

Will you check to see what the WEATHER will be today?

[ ]	viento
[ ]	copo de nieve
[x]	tiempo
[ ]	trueno

The Spanish weather word for weather is tiempo.