Vocabulary One
What is matter?
The weather instrument that indicates wind direction
What is a wind or weather vane?
Air in motion
What is wind?
The layer of the atmosphere where weather is found
What is troposphere?
The two main gasses that make up air
What are nitrogen and oxygen?
The force exerted on a surface by the mass of the air around or in contact with it
What is air pressure?
A measure of how hot something is
What is temperature?
Rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls from the clouds
What is precipitation?
The layer of the atmosphere that protects us from ultra violet rays
What is the stratosphere?
The most abundant gas in our atmosphere
What is nitrogen?
Forced into a smaller space
What is compressed?
A prediction about what kind of weather to expect
What is forecast?
A weather instrument that measures air pressure
What is a barometer?
The layer of the atmosphere that protects us from meteors
What is the mesospshere?
Water moves between Earth's surface and the atmosphere through these three parts of the water cycle
What is evaporation, condensation and precipitation?
The amount of material in something
What is mass?
A weather instrument that measures humidity
What is a hygrometer?
The layer of gasses surrounding Earth
What is atmosphere?
The five layers of atmosphere in order from the Earth up
What is the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere?
Another device that measures wind speed that is not a wind meter
What is an anemometer?
Data that meteorologists measure - these include temperature, wind speed and direction, air pressure, cloud cover, precipiation
What are weather variables?
The mixture of gasses surrounding the Earth
What is air?
The condition of the air around us - heat, moisture, pressure, and movement are four important variables that determine what???
What is weather?
A way in which meteorologists determine the weather variables each day in the atmosphere.
What is they launch weather balloons?
The gas that comes from cattle, coal mines, oil wells and gas pipelines that absorbs energy and transfers heat to the atmosphere
What is methane?