Weather Tools
Weather & Water Cycle
Air Pressure
Winds
Dew Point & Precipitation
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What is a weather vane?

200

The condition of the atmosphere at any given time/place

What is weather?

200

This is the trend for air pressure as one moves further up the troposphere

What is decreases?

200

This kind of local wind is common during the summer, when land heats up

What is a sea breeze?

200

When dew point is reached, relative humidity is this

What is 100%?

400

What is a barometer?

400

Climate is the weather patterns at a specific place over the course of

What are 30 years/decades/long periods of time?

400

Air pressure is measured in millibars or 

What is inches of Mercury?

400

Faster winds are represented by isobars that are what?

What is closer together?
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The % of sky with clouds in it

What is cloud cover?

600


What is an anemometer?

600

The greatest source of evaporation

What is ocean water/the oceans?

600

This kind of temperature is associated with high air pressure

What is cold?

600

A wind blowing toward the Northwest would be called this kind of wind

What is Southeast?

600

A cloud that forms at Earth's surface

What is fog?

800

What is a sling psychrometer?

800

Heat is transferred through the atmosphere in these

What are convection cells?

800

This kind of air pressure is associated with storms

What is low?

800

The polar jet stream moves South and blank during the winter (speed)

What is faster?

800

Precipitation formed by the updrafts of a thunderstorm cloud

What is hail?

1000


What is a rain gauge?

1000

The process by which plants release water vapor into the atmosphere

What is transpiration?

1000

Air exerts 1 atmosphere of pressure or blank millibars at sea level

What is 1013.2?

1000

The global wind belt that affects most of the United States is called this

What is the prevailing westerlies?

1000

In order to condense, water needs this

What is a surface?
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