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Air temperature is measured with a...?
Thermometer
What are the three generic kinds of clouds?
Cirrus, cumulus and stratus.
What are the three kinds of heat transfer?
Conduction, convection and radiation
What is the instrument that figures out the direction of the wind.
Wind vane
At what degree does water freeze in celcius?
0 degrees celcius
Temperature is measured in units called...?
Degrees
Any form of water that falls from the clouds is know as what?
Precipitation
What is the transfer of heat via movement of liquid, fluid or gas?
Convection
What instrument measures wind speed?
An anemometer
(say that five times fast)
At what degree does water freeze in fahrenheit?
32 degrees fahrenheit.
What is the percentage of water vapor compared to how much the air can hold.
Relative humidity
The tiny particles give a surface for the clouds to condense on.
What is the transfer of heat via electromagnetic waves?
Radiation
What is the process by which gases hold heat inside the Earth's atmosphere?
What kind of radiation are sunburns caused by?
Ultraviolet radiation.
What is evaporation?
Evaporation is the process in which the sun heats up water enough to turn into water vapor.
What is it called when an area of land has an unusual lack of water for an amount of time?
Droughts
What is the transfer of heat with two objects that are touching one another.
Conduction
The Sun's energy travels to Earth as what?
electromagnetic waves.
At the poles, are the Sun's rays...
A. Most direct
B. Least direct
C. Sometimes direct
B/least direct
What is wind. (explain in a precise manor)
Wind is the horizontal movement of air from an area of higher air pressure to an area of lower air pressure.
What does alto mean?
High
When Earth's surface is heated it reflects some of the energy back into the atmosphere as what?
Infrared radiation
What does a Sling Psychrometer measure?
Relative humidity.
What is wrong with the following statement?
What is wrong with the following statement.
The punctuation