Measurement Tools
Measures the average kinetic energy of the molecules in the air.
What is thermometer?
What is air pressure?
Air pressure is ________ at low altitudes than it is at high altitudes.
What is greater?
Precipitation that reaches Earth's surface as solid, frozen crystals of water.
What is snow?
This instrument measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
Measures the amount of rain that has fallen at a given period of time.
The temperature at which water vapor will condense.
What is dew point?
Precipitation that reaches the Earth's surface as droplets of water.
What is rain?
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
This type of precipitation falls from the sky - partially melts - and gets tossed back up into the atmosphere to refreeze. This can happen numerous times before it falls to Earth.
What is hail?
What is an anemometer?
The amount of water air is holding at a certain temperature compared to the amount of water it could hold at that temperature.
What is relative humidity?
The more water vapor in the air, the ...
What is the higher the humidity?
What is precipitation?
This is given as the direction from which the wind is blowing.
What is wind direction?
An instrument that measures the amount of water vapor in the air.
What is a hygrometer?
Frozen Precipitation
What is snow?
A cloud that forms near the Earth's surface that is a suspension of either water droplets or ice crystals.
What is fog?
What is the horizontal movement of air in the atmosphere?
What is wind?
Winds that blow east to west.
What are easterlies?
An instrument measuring atmospheric pressure, used especially in forecasting the weather and determining altitude.
What is a barometer?
What does an uneven heating of the Earth's surface create?
What are the differences in density?
Precipitation that reaches Earth as liquid drops of water.
What is rain?
Precipitation occurs during thunderstorms that fall and gets tossed up into the air several times before falling to the ground.
What is hail?
Occurs when the oceans are the warmest.
What are hurricanes?