Weather Instruments
Weather Instruments II
Hurricanes
Tornados
Thunderstorms
100
This instrument measures the amount of rainfall.
What is rain gauge?
100
This instrument measures temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100
This surrounds the eye of the hurricane.
What is eye wall?
100
Tornado that forms over water.
What is a waterspout?
100
Most intense type of downburst.
What is microburst
200
This instrument indicates the direction of wind.
What is a weather vane?
200
This instrument measures atmospheric pressure.
What is a barometer?
200
The three types of tropical cyclones, from weakest to strongest.
What is tropical depression, tropical storm, hurricane
200
Most distinctive visual feature of a tornado; formed by air around the tornado reaching the dew point and condensing rapidly swirling ___________.
What is condensation funnel?
200
A term that refers to a thunderstorm with a single, giant, rotating updraft.
What is supercell?
300
An instrument that uses radio waves to detect objects and measure their distance.
What is radar?
300
This instrument measures relative humidity.
What is a hygrometer?
300
Scale used to rank hurricane intensity.
What is Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.
300
Scale used to rank tornado intensity
What is Enhanced Fujita Scale
300
List three stages of a single-cell thunderstorm.
What is cumulus, mature, dissapating
400
The instrument that measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
400
This instrument measures and transmits meteorological data simultaneously from weather balloons to weather stations.
What is a radiosonde?
400
These are conditions needed for hurricanes to form.
What is warm ocean, region where Coriolis Effect is pronounced
400
This type of occurrence starts on the ground and isn't associated with a cloud, whereas this type of occurrence starts in a cloud and descends from the ground. (two answers)
What is a dust devil? What is a tornado?
400
Heat from return stroke of lightning bolt causes air near the lightning bolt to expand explosively, forming a shock wave of sound called...
What is thunder.
500
Three things a Doppler radar can measure.
What is wind speed, wind direction, precipitation?
500
Name at least two ways satellites are useful to meteorologists.
What is taking pictures of clouds determining temp of ground, oceans and upper atmosphere measuring high altitude wind speeds, precipitation and relative humidity determining chemical makeup of atmosphere transmitting data from automatic weather stations
500
Three major dangers of hurricanes.
What is wind speed, storm surge, inland flooding.
500
Description of how a tornado forms.
What is 1. differences in wind direction and speed create horizontal cylinder 2. cylinder picked up by updraft; cylinder + updraft merge and form mesocyclone 3. smaller cylinder forms inside, stretches to ground and tornado forms
500
This is the relationship between atmospheric pressure and weather conditions.
What is high pressure is good weather and low pressure is bad weather.
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