Weather
Climate
Weather Instruments
Clouds
Ecology Review
100
A massive tropical cyclone
What is a hurricane
100
The climate zone where Cape Cod is located within.
What is the temperate zone?
100
An instrument that is used to take temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100
The name for thunderclouds.
What is cumulonimbus?
100
Many different populations that live together in an area
What is a community?
200
Rain that freezes before it hits the found
What is sleet?
200
The climate zone that receives the most solar radiation throughout the year.
What is the tropical zone?
200
This instrument uses millibars or inches of mercury for its units.
What is a barometer?
200
High altitude clouds that are puffy and form by rising air.
What is cirrocumulus?
200
An organism that feeds on dead matter in the ground?
What is a detritivore?
300
Winds come from the south or southwest during this time of year.
What is summer?
300
These gases trap the suns energy and keeps the planet warm.
What are greenhouse gases?
300
This instrument is used to find wind direction.
What is a compass?
300
Low lying gray rain clouds that do not have a definite shape.
What is nimbostratus?
300
Two factors that make pond water acidic?
What is carbon dioxide, fertilizers, and acid rain?
400
A breeze that form because of the unequal heating between ocean water and land.
What is a sea breeze?
400
Four variables that control climate on our planet.
What are landmasses, altitude, ocean currents, greenhouse gases, and solar radiation?
400
This instrument is used to measure humidity.
What is a sling psychrometer?
400
A type of cloud that looks like fish scales.
What is cirrocumulus?
400
The measure of living tissue in an organism or trophic level.
What is biomass?
500
The type of barometric pressure associated with cloudy and rainy weather.
What is low pressure?
500
A climate shift that occurs in response to warm Pacific ocean water moving towards South America every four years.
What is El Nino?
500
This fancy instrument measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
500
A small microscopic particle that water or ice forms around to make a cloud.
What is condensation nuclei?
500
This occurs when the accumulation of toxins increases in organisms higher in the food web.
What is biomagnification?
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