Weather
Weather Instruments
Natural Disasters/Storms
Atmosphere
Other
100
the temperature in which air can no longer hold the water vapor in the air.
What is dew point temperature?
100
An instrument for measuring the speed of the wind.
What is a anemometer?
100
A storm with heavy thunder and lightning
What is a thunderstorm?
100
the envelope of gases surrounding the Earth
What is atmosphere?
100
An odorless, colorless gas
What is carbon dioxide?
200
Is caused when a very cold winter air mass flows over relatively warmer waters of a large lake.
What causes lake effect snow?
200
A instrument consisting of a wet-bulb and a dry-bulb thermometer that measures weather.
What is a psychrometer?
200
Frozen rain pellets form that come in the form in a storm
What is hail?
200
Pressure from the weight of the atmosphere
What is atmospheric temperature?
200
A large atmospheric circulation system
What is an anti-cyclone?
300
A large volume of air that covers an area.
What is an air mass?
300
Measures the air temperature.
What is a thermometer?
300
A storm with high winds
What is a hurricane?
300
The lowest region of the atmosphere
What is the troposphere?
300
Presence of water vapor in the atmosphere
What is humidity?
400
A low pressure area that forms near the boundary between warm and cool air masses.
What is a cyclone?
400
Measures the amount of rain that fell on a certain area.
What is rain gauge?
400
A vortex of air that causes destruction
What is a tornado?
400
the atmospheric layer between the stratosphere and the thermosphere
What is the mesosphere?
400
Deep layer in the stratosphere
What is the ozone layer?
500
The degree or intensity of heat present in a substance or object.
What is temperature?
500
An instrument that determines the direction of wind
What is a wind vane?
500
A large wave that is caused by an Earthquake
What is a tsunami?
500
The outermost region of the atmopshere
What is the exosphere?
500
Water in the gaseous state
What is water vapor?
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