Technology
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Vocabulary
Weather Instruments
Grab Bag
100
These are used during TV broadcasts to show people the daily weather?
What is Weather map
100
An................. is a large region of the atmosphere in which the air has similar properties throughout?
What is Air Mass
100
These are lines that connect places with equal air pressure?
What is Isobar
100
This instrument shows the direction the wind is currently blowing?
What is Wind vane
100
"Nimbus" means ..............
What is Rain
200
This uses radio signals to detect precipitation.
What is Radar
200
The boundary between two air masses where they meet?
What is Front
200
A large swirling storm with low pressure at the center. They usually begins over tropical oceans?
What is Hurricane
200
This instrument is released into the atmosphere and usually relays the weather to the ground in our atmosphere?
What is Weather Balloon
200
This type of cloud usually is associated with rain, thunder, lightning, and lots of rain.
What is Cumulonimbus
300
These are used to help predict weather, they are very expensive, and must be replaced constantly.
What is Weather balloons
300
Where cold air moves in under a warm air mass?
What is Cold front
300
The most common kind of severe storm?
What is Thunderstorm
300
This instrument measures wind speed.
What is Anemometer
300
This layer of atmosphere is where most if not all our weather occurs?
What is Troposphere
400
This is used to measure wind speed?
What is an Anemometer
400
Where warm air mass moves in over a cold air mass?
What is Warm front
400
This type of cloud is wispy and featherlike?
What is Cirrus
400
This instrument usually is moving around in our atmosphere relaying detailed images to our surface?
What is Satellite
400
This effect shows that winds in the norther hemisphere always spin to the right?
What is Coriolis effect
500
These 3 cloud types are the most common clouds found in our atmosphere at any given time?
What is Cumulus, Stratus, and Cirrus
500
When a cold front catches up with a warm front a/an .......... ............ forms
What is Occluded front
500
Water vapor may be measured as ............, the actual amount of water vapor in the air?
What is Humidity
500
This type of radar measures wind speed?
What is Doppler
500
A violent, whirling wind that moves across the ground in a narrow path?
What is Tonado
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