What is a weather vane?
The condition of the atmosphere at any given time/place
What is weather?
This is the trend for air pressure as one moves further up the troposphere
What is decreases?
This kind of local wind is common during the summer, when land heats up
What is a sea breeze?
When dew point is reached, relative humidity is this
What is 100%?
What is a barometer?
Climate is the weather patterns at a specific place over the course of
What are 30 years/decades/long periods of time?
Air pressure is measured in millibars or
What is inches of Mercury?
Faster winds are represented by isobars that are what?
The % of sky with clouds in it
What is cloud cover?
What is an anemometer?
The greatest source of evaporation
What is ocean water/the oceans?
This kind of temperature is associated with high air pressure
What is cold?
A wind blowing toward the Northwest would be called this kind of wind
What is Southeast?
A cloud that forms at Earth's surface
What is fog?
What is a sling psychrometer?
Heat is transferred through the atmosphere in these
What are convection cells?
This kind of air pressure is associated with storms
What is low?
The polar jet stream moves South and blank during the winter (speed)
What is faster?
Precipitation formed by the updrafts of a thunderstorm cloud
What is hail?
What is a rain gauge?
The process by which plants release water vapor into the atmosphere
What is transpiration?
Air exerts 1 atmosphere of pressure or blank millibars at sea level
What is 1013.2?
The global wind belt that affects most of the United States is called this
What is the prevailing westerlies?
In order to condense, water needs this