Differentiate between wet-bulb and dry-bulb thermometer.
What is a wet-bulb thermometer contains a liquid. The relative humidity can be found by comparing the temperatures of a wet-bulb and dry-bulb thermometer.
100
This is how local and global winds are alike.
What is they are both causes by the unequal heating of Earth's surface?
100
Describe a cirrus cloud.
What is a wispy feathery cloud that forms where temperatures are very low?
100
Describe convection current.
What is the upward movement of warm air and downward movement of cool air?
200
This instrument measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
200
This is the freezing point of water.
What is 32 degrees Farenheit?
200
This type of radiation causes skin cancer.
What is ultraviolet radiation?
200
How does cloud-seeding produce rain?
What is tiny ice crystals of silver iodide and dry ice (carbon dioxide) that are sprinkled in clouds by airplanes?
200
List the main types of precipitation.
What is rain, sleet, freezing rain, hail, and snow?
300
This instrument measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
300
How is an anemometer used?
What is to measure wind speed?
300
Describe temperature.
What is the average amount of energy of motion of each particle of a substance?
300
Explain the three types of heat transfer.
What is radiation - direct transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves, conduction - direct transfer of heat from one substance to another that it is touching, convection - transfer of heat by the movement of a fluid?
300
Differentiate between a north wind and a south wind?
What is a north wind comes from the south and a south wind comes from the north?
400
Where do prevailing winds blow in the Northern Hemisphere?
What is away from the horse latitudes towards the poles?
400
This causes winds.
What is differences in air pressure?
400
Describe scattering.
What is the process by which dust particles and gases enter the atmosphere and reflect light in all directions?
400
Why do large bodies of water cause local winds to shift direction from day to night?
What is at night the land cools quicker than water so the air over the land becomes cooler, but during the day it is reversed?
400
These are bands of high speed winds.
What is jet streams?
500
List and describe the three types of heat transfer.
What is radiation, conduction, and convection.
500
Describe infrared radiation.
What is electromagnetic waves with wavelengths that are longer than visible light but shorter than microwaves?
500
This is a stratus cloud.
What is a cloud that forms in flat layers, they are spread out, and when they thicken rain occurs?
500
When do clouds form?
What is water vapor in the air condenses to form liquid water or ice crystals?