Weather Instruments
Weather Terms
Weather Connections
Water Cycle
Grab Bag
100
This device is used to measure humidity.
What is a hygrometer?
100
This is the measure of heat and cold.
What is temperature?
100
These two weather conditions combine to affect the dew point.
What are temperature and humidity?
100
This provides the energy for the water cycle.
What is the sun?
100
The earth is made up of this percentage of water.
What is 75%.
200
This measures air pressure
What is a barometer?
200
This is the amount of water vapor present in the air.
What is humidity?
200
The closer a high pressure system is located to a low pressure system the stronger these are.
What are winds?
200
This will happen faster with a plate of water than when you have a glass of water.
What is evaporation?
200
This is the person that uses instruments to monitor weather conditions and forecast future weather.
What is a meteorologist?
300
This measures the amount of rain that has fallen.
What is a rain gauge?
300
There is 14.7 pounds per square inch of this at sea level.
What is air pressure?
300
High pressure at the poles tends to move towards low pressure at this.
What is the equator?
300
This part of the water cycle is responsible for erosion.
What is runoff?
300
An example of this would be to turn off the water while brushing your teeth and "if it's yellow let it mellow, if it's brown flush it down"
What is water conservation?
400
This measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
400
This narrow band of high velocity wind resides several miles above the earth and can travel at upwards of 200 mph.
What is the jet stream?
400
These two types of clouds we have studied are associated with precipitation.
What are stratus and cumulonimbus clouds?
400
This is the evaporation through plants, trees, and grasses.
What is transpiration?
400
This is an undergroundarea btween rocks that holds water.
What is an aquifer?
500
This is expensive piece of equipment is used to detect the amount and severity of precipitation in the area.
What is a radar?
500
This is caused by the uneven heating and cooling of the planet earth.
What is wind?
500
Molecules that are close together are associated with this air pressure.
What is high?
500
This is when a solid turns into a gas without first melting.
What is sublimation?
500
Examples of this are hail, rain, sleet and snow.
What is precipitation?
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