Temperature
Pressure
Wind
Severe Weather
Weather Instrument
100
The temperature units used by most of the world
What are degrees celsius? (or centigrade)
100
Air pressure ____________(rises or falls) as altitude increases.
What is falls?
100
Wind is caused by differences in:
What is air pressure or temperature?
100
Type of pressure system around which storms build.
What is Low pressure?
100
Measures Temperature
What is a thermometer?
200
Convert 75 degrees Fahrenheit to Celsius.
What is 23.9 (or 24) degrees F.
200
As temperature rises, air pressure ________________________(increases or decreases)
What is decreases?
200
Sea breezes blow from the _________ to the _________.
What is sea to land or similar wording. (ocean to beach)
200
The most violent type of storm.
What is a tornado?
200
Measures wind direction
What is a weather vane?
300
Temperature in the northern latitudes is usually ______________than temperature in the southern latitudes.
What is lower (less than)
300
As the amount of water in the air increases, air pressure ___________________ causing.
What is decreases?
300
During the day, the land near water heats faster than the water. This causes the air to be ____________ dense than that over the water.
less
300
Significant snow and winds over 35 MPH
What is a blizzard?
300
Measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
400
Hot air rises, cools, sinks and heats via _______________ currents.
What is convection?
400
The instrument used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
400
Wind blows from areas of ____________pressure to areas of _____________ pressure.
What is high to low
400
Fuel for a Hurricane.
What is warm moist water? (heated by solar radiation)
400
Measures dry bulb/wet bulb temperature.
What is a sling psychrometer?
500
Hot air is ____________________(more or less) dense than cool air.
What is less?
500
The barometric pressure at this weather station model? MAKE SURE TO INCLUDE UNITS!
What is 999.8 millibars?
500
Where on this isobar map is the wind speed fastest?
What is North East or where the lines are closest together?
500
Choose a storm and name 3 safety preparations.
Hurricane? What is Board Windows, stock food, Evacuate?
Tornado? Go inside, interior room. Outside, lie in ditch.
Blizzard? Stock Food, Seek Shelter, stay off of roads
Any other reasonable answer.
500
Carries instruments into the upper atmosphere in a floating structure.
What is a weather balloon?