Water Cycle
This device is used to measure precipitation
What is a rain gauge?
The method that the sun uses to transfer thermal energy
What is radiation?
Another term for a high pressure system
What is an anticyclone?
This device is used to measure temperature
What is a thermometer?
The transfer of thermal energy via the vertical motion of a gas or liquid
The direction the wind rotates in a cyclone in the Northern Hemisphere
What is counter clockwise?
This device is used to measure atmospheric pressure
What is a barometer?
The name of all of the water on the earth's surface along with the water vapour in the atmosphere
What is the hydrosphere?
The process of a liquid that loses thermal energy in order to become a solid
What is solidification?
The force that causes wind to deflect to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere
What is Coriolis (Coriolis Effect)?
This device is used to measure wind direction
What is a wind vane?
The process of solid water (ice) that gains thermal energy and becomes a gas without passing through the liquid state
What is sublimation?
Zero degrees latitude (horizontal)
What is the equator?
This device is used to measure relative humidity
What is a hygrometer?
The amount of energy that an object reflects (often depends on the color of the object)
Zero degrees longitude
What is the prime meridian?