What is Weather?
The tool used to measure the direction from which the wind is blowing.
What is a wind vane?
From this activity you observed, how air pressure, temperature and dew point change as the altitude increases.
What is “Elevator to Space”?
This atmospheric layer is the thinnest.
What is the thermosphere?
Of the following four choices, this is where air pressure would be the LOWEST: a. on top of a skyscraper b. at sea level c. on top of Mt Everest d. at the bottom of the Grand Canyon
What is (c) at the top of Mt Everest?
A storm caused by strong wind and sand or dust.
What is a sandstorm?
The scientific study of Earth's weather
What is meterology?
From this activity, you observed the different pressures in two different areas, the wind speed and direction.
What is an “Air Pressure Map”?
This part of the atmosphere contains a type of gas that absorbs ultraviolet radiation.
What is the stratosphere?
Air pressure flowing from a high pressure to a low pressure.
What is wind?
A storm caused by strong wind and sand or dust.
What is a sandstorm?
If air is under high pressure in one area and has less space to move around in, and it can escape, air particles will flow from the area of high pressure to low pressure, until the pressure, or air density, is equal.
What is equilibrium?
For this experiment, you designed a pressure indicator that helped observe the behavior of the particles of air.
What is “Pressure in a Jar”?
The mass of material in a given space.
What is density?
Explain what it means that air at sea level is more dense than air at higher altitudes (meaning, explain what happens with the molecules).
What is the air molecules are packed closer together at sea level?
Violently rotating column of air extending from the base of the thunderstorm down to the ground.
What is a tornado?
Air forced into a smaller space
What is compression?
From this activity you observed, air particles move into a smaller volume, the air particles size don’t change, the particles speed up and collide more often.
What is “Gas in a Syringe”?
This shows air pressure on a weather map.
What is an isobar?
The weather instrument used to determine the speed of the wind.
What is an anemometer?
Temperature, humidity, wind speed, air pressure and precipitation.
What is information included on a weather report?
From this activity you observed, how air pressure, mass of the atmosphere and composition of gases change as the altitude increases.
What is the “Weather Balloon Simulator”?
This is the layer of the atmosphere in which humans live and weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
The constant motion of air particles causes this:
What is air pressure?
A prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall or a shortage of water.
What is a drought?