Air Pressure
Weather Instruments
Labs
Vocab Review
Application
100
The weight of air pushing down on an area and is often measured in millibars (mb).
What is atmospheric pressure?
100
A tool that measures atmospheric pressure
What is a Barometer?
100
In the Air Pressure Sprinkles lab, how many syringes were needed to create a difference in air pressure?
What is two syringes?
100
A property of matter that is equal to the amount of mass in a certain volume of matter.
What is Density?
100
True or False: Wind moves air molecules from regions of higher pressure to regions of lower pressure.
What is True?
200
Air moving from a region of higher pressure to a region of lower pressure.
What is wind?
200
A tool that measures the average kinetic energy of the air
What is a thermometer?
200
In the Air Pressure sprinkles lab, what caused the sprinkles to move?
What is a change in air pressure or wind?
200
The elevation of the land surface where the atmosphere meets the ocean.
What is Sea Level?
200
In this weather map, which of these numbers represent the highest air pressure on a weather map?
What is 1024 mb?
300
When you go up in altitude (elevation), what happens to the air density?
What is "lower air density"?
300
A tool that measures wind speed in kmph or mph.
What is an anemometer?
300
What materials were used to create the class barometer?
What is a balloon, a plastic straw, rubber band, glass jar, and a piece of tape?
300
The envelope of air that surrounds the solid Earth, including gases and aerosols.
What is the Atmosphere?
300
In this weather map, which of these numbers represent the lowest air pressure on a weather map?
What is 992 mb?
400
When you go to sea level, atmospheric pressure is higher because air density is __________.
What is "higher"?
400
A tool that measures precipitation like rain in cm.
What is a rain gauge?
400
When the atmospheric pressure increases in the classroom, the straw on the class barometer moves ______.
What is up?
400
The relatively thin layer of the atmosphere that is closest to Earth's surface and the layer where weather occurs.
What is the Troposphere?
400
In this weather map, which way would wind be moving in the U.S.?
What is from a West to East direction?
500
If there is low density of air in Denver, Colorado because of the high altitude, then the air pressure in that area must be ______________.
What is "low air pressure"?
500
A tool that measures humidity and dew point.
What is a Sling Psychrometer?
500
When the atmospheric pressure decreases, the straw on the class barometer moves _________.
What is down?
500
Lines on a weather map that connect different areas that have the same atmospheric pressure.
What is an Isobar?
500
What is the name of a wind that comes from the West?
What is a Westerly wind?