Meterologist
Air Pressure
Winds
Atmosphere
Clouds
100
What is metereology?
What is the study of weather?
100
Air pressure is measured by what instrument.
What is a barometer?
100
Winds are formed by ________in the air.
What is movement?
100
Weather occurs in this layer of atmosphere.
What is troposphere?
100
Clouds are made up of ___________.
What is frozen ice molecules?
200
Air temperature is measured by a __________.
What is thermometer?
200
When barometric pressure is rising, the weather is ________.
What is getting better?
200
The instrument that measures wind is called _______.
What is anemometer?
200
Where does convection happen? (three answers)
What is ocean, earth's mantle, and atmosphere?
200
Low lying formless cloud, called fog when the base lies on the ground.
What is stratus?
300
The transfer of heat energy in a fluid (gas or liquid).
What is convection?
300
Air pressure is ________ at sea level.
What is higher?
300
The wind that is a narrow belt of strong, high speed, high-pressure air is called _______.
What is jet stream?
300
______ winds are air movements toward the equator.
What is trade?
300
Thin wispy clouds blown by high winds they are considered high clouds.
What is cirrus?
400
Why would a meteorologist use a barometer?
What is see changes in the weather?
400
Three factors that affect air pressure.
What is temperature, water vapor, and elevation?
400
At the equator, surface winds are quite calm. These are called ________.
What is doldrums?
400
In the eye of the storm what happens?
What is calm?
400
Main process behind cloud formation.
What is condensation?
500
Invented the barometer.
Who is Evangelista Torricelli?
500
Air pressure at any particular point on the Earth depends on the _________ of the air.
What is density?
500
Both local winds and global winds are caused by differences in air pressure due to unequal _________ of the atmosphere.
What is heating?
500
The ozone layer is in the _______.
What is stratosphere?
500
Covers the sky as a continuous sheet with no features. (cloud type)
What is cirrostratus?
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