Tools
The tool used to measure the temperature.
What is a thermometer?
The unit of measurement for temperature.
What is degrees?
The amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
This is the largest layer of the atmosphere from 80km to 560km where the air is very thin and the temperature is very hot.
What is the thermosphere?
The term for scientific weather prediction over the course of a few days.
What is a weather forecast?
The tool used to measure the speed of the wind.
What is an anemometer or wind meter?
The unit of measurement for air pressure.
What is atmospheres or bars?
A mass of water drops or ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere.
What is a cloud?
This is the layer of the atmosphere where weather occurs and where you live.
What is the troposphere?
The term for the scientist who forecasts weather.
What is a meteorologist?
The tool used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
The unit of measure for cloud coverage (not cloud height).
What is oktas?
The measure of hotness or coldness expressed in terms of any of several scales, including Fahrenheit and Celsius.
What is temperature?
This is the second layer of the atmosphere that contains a thin layer of ozone that absorbs energy from the sun.
What is the stratosphere?
The systematic statement of the existing weather in a particular area that usually involves prediction too.
What is a weather report?
The tool used to measure humidity.
What is a hygrometer?
A rain gauge uses this measurement for precipitation.
What is millimeters?
The condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls from clouds due to gravitational pull.
What is precipitation?
This layer of the atmosphere means "middle layer" and is the layer where meteoroids burn up.
What is the mesosphere?
Temperature, humidity, and precipitation are examples of weather __.
The tool used to measure the height of clouds (not the cloud coverage).
The unit of measure for humidity.
What is g/kg?
The force exerted by air, whether compressed or unconfined, on any surface in contact with it.
What is air pressure?
This is the last layer of the earth's atmosphere where phone calls and other communications can be relayed by satellites.
What is the exosphere?
This is one reason why predicting weather is important.
What is transportation, farming, events, other?