Atmosphere
Clouds and Precipitation
Climate
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
100
A device used to measure barometric pressure
What is a barometer?
100
Clouds are made up of this
What is water vapor?
100
Ocean currents, mountain ranges and altitude all can affect this
What is climate?
100
A large region of air with similar temperatures and humidity.
What is an air mass?
100
The average weather of a place is called this.
What is climate?
200
The condition of the troposhere at a particular time and place
What is weather
200
As water vapor cools down, they loose speed and condense around tiny things such as these.
What are particles of dust, smoke, or pollution?
200
These two things are used to help determine a an area's climate
What are average temperature and rainfall?
200
The layer of ther atmosphere farthest from Earth's surface.
What is the exosphere?
200
This device is used to measure wind speed and uses rotating cups.
What is an anemometer
300
A wind that blows steadily over long distances in a predictable direction.
What is a global wind
300
These systems are associated with cool, dry air
What are high pressure systems?
300
The equator is located in this type of climate zone where the climate is warm and wet.
What is a tropical climate zone?
300
Layer of gases 5-11 miles thick that all organisms live in
What is the troposhpere?
300
This shows the weather in a specific area at a specific time.
What is a weather map?
400
As this increases, temperatures usually become cooler.
What is altitude?
400
These systems are associated with warm and stormy weather
What are low pressure systems?
400
The United States in located in this climate zone where summers are warm and winters are cool or cold. Precipitation falls year round.
What is the temperate climate zone?
400
The energy from the the sun that reaches the planet's surface
What is insolation?
400
The force put on a given area by the weight of the air above it
What is air pressure?
500
The air pressure at this level is 1.04 kg/cm squared.
What is the air pressure at sea level?
500
Hail, rain sleet and snow are all forms of this
What is precipitation?
500
A metorologist uses these things to make weather maps (4 things)
What are temperature, wind speed, wind direction and air pressure?
500
The dry area on the leeward side of a mountain.
What is a rain shadow?
500
the height of a location above sea level.
What is altitude?
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