Tools
A tool that measures temperature.
What is a thermometer?
A measure of the average kinetic energy of an object.
What is temperature?
This usually means that rainy or snowy weather is coming.
What is a low-pressure system?
A crest and trough in ocean water.
What is a wave?
A streamlike movement of ocean water far below the surface.
What is a deep current?
A tool that measures rainfall.
What is a rain gauge?
The energy transferred between objects that are at different temperatures.
What is heat?
This usually means fair, mild weather.
What is a high-pressure system?
A movement of ocean water that follows a regular pattern.
What are ocean currents?
A horizontal movement of ocean water that is caused by wind and that occurs at or near the ocean's surface.
What is a surface current?
A tool that measures the wind direction.
What is a wind vane?
The temperature at which molecular energy is at a minimum.
What is absolute zero?
This could mean sunlight OR precipitation.
What is a steady barometer?
A water current that travels near and parallel to the shoreline.
What is a longshore current?
A subsurface current that is near shore and that pulls objects out to sea.
What is the undertow?
A tool that measures the wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
A self contained convective zone in a fluid in which upward motion of warmer fluid in the center is balanced by downward motion of cooler fluid at the periphery.
What is a convection cell?
This can indicate where a storm is coming from.
What is wind direction?
One of a group of long ocean waves that have steadily traveled a great distance from their point of generation.
What is a swell?
The apparent curving of the path of a moving object from an otherwise straight path due to the Earth's rotation.
What is the Coriolis effect?
A tool that provides a larger view of weather.
What is a satellite?
The trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planet's surface.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
This can indicate how damaging a storm may be.
What is wind speed?
A change in the eastern Pacific Ocean in which the surface water temperature becomes unusually cool.
What is La Nina?
A change in the water temperature in the Pacific Ocean that produces a warm current.
What is El Nino?