Weather Concepts
Weather Terms
Natural Disasters
Weather Instruments
Layers of the atmosphere
100
Atmosphere suitable for living things? (True or False)
What is True
100
What is the definition of Pressure?
What is the force pushing on the surface of an area.
100
what are some natural disasters?
What is snowstorm, thunderstorms, hailstorm.
100
What are the two most used instruments?
What is Mercury Barometer and Aneroid Barometer.
100
What is the first layer of the atmosphere?
What is troposphere.
200
Earths atmosphere is made of?
What is nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dixiode, water vapor and many other gasses.
200
What is the definiton of Air Pressure?
What is the result of the weight of a column of air pushing down on an area.
200
How are all the natural disasters alike?
What is all can cause an increased amount of damage and can last for a long period of time.
200
What are the instruments used for?
What is used for measuring air pressure and rain levels.
200
Name all of the layers of the atmosphere.
What is troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, ionosphere, exosphere.
300
Properties of air?
What is Air pressure, density, and pressure.
300
Describe Density?
What is The amount of mass in a given volume.
300
How are all of the natural disasters different?
What is they all contain different types of precipitation such as: rain, snow, hail in different forms.
300
What is a rain gauge?
What is an instrument used for measuring levels of rain and pressure.
300
How is the atomosphere divded?
What is divided into four layers and each at different heights.
400
Instruments used to measure air pressure?
What is Mercury Barometer, Barometer, and Aneroid Barometer.
400
Describe Aneroid Barometer and list its purposes.
What is an airtight metal chamber, to measure the amount of air pressure.
400
What is the natural disaster that can cause failer in power lines?
What is thunderstorms, and hailstorms.
400
What is the mercury barometer used for?
What is measuring amount of pressure and merucry in the air.
400
List the number of layers the thermosphere is divided into and list the layers.
What is 2 layers, ionosphere, and exosphere.
500
How does increasing allititude affect air pressure and density?
What is Air Pressure decreases as altitude increases, as air pressure increases so does density.
500
Define Mercury Barometer and list its reason and how it works.
What is an open glass tube at the bottom , to measure when air pressure increase and contains water, when notices air pressure it acts like a vacuum seal.
500
What is the most dangerous natural disaster and why?
What is hailsotrm, because it can damage surfaces of buildings and roofs of cars.
500
How are all the instruments alike?
What is all involve measuring amount of pressure and certain things in the air.
500
Describe the mesophere?
What is Meso- means middle, begins at 50 kilometers above, ends at 80 altitude, approachs 90 degrees celcius.
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