Weather Instruments
Measures Temperature
What is a Thermometer?
Space
Coldest temperature, little precipitation
What is the Polar zone?
Important factors in farming
What is water access, soil quality, climate conditions, plant selection
The scientific term for water falling from the sky in various forms.
What is precipitation?
Shows Wind Direction
What is a wind vane?
Air has weight: True or False?
True
Long cold winter, short cool summers
What is the subpolar zone?
the three main principles in Conservation Agriculture
What is "no soil disturbance, maintain plant cover, crop rotation"?
All the different kinds of life in one area.
What is biodiversity?
Measures Wind Speed
What is an Anemometer?
Air contracts when heated: true or false
false
Four distinct seasons, moderate temperatures
What is the temperate zone?
The benefits of crop rotation.
Maintains soil nutrients, prevents soil erosions, controls pests, improves soil health
Weather over a long period
What is climate?
Measure atmospheric pressure
What is a Barometer?
This is created when air moves from high pressure to low pressure.
What is Wind?
Hot temperatures, wet and dry seasons
What is the Tropical zone?
What is Rotational Grazing?
To protect plants, animals and their habitat
What is conservation?
Measures Humidity
What is a Hygrometer?
The are 4 properties of air
What is: Takes up space, has weight, expands when heated, contracts when cooled, moves from high pressure to low pressure, creates wind through pressure differences
Hot Year round, frequent rainfall
equatorial zone
What is farming a variety of crops and animals called?
promoting biodiversity
The force exerted on a surface by the air above it as gravity pulls it to Earth.
What is atmospheric pressure?