Weather Instruments
Vocabulary
Front and Air Masses
Weather Maps
100
What weather instrument measures air pressure?
What is a barometer
100
What is water vapor in the air called?
Humidity
100
When two different air masses meet they form what?
What is a front
100
What symbol represents a cold front?
What is small triangles
200
What weather instrument measures temperature?
What is a thermometer
200
Another name for a tornado is what?
What is a twister
200
When does a cold front form?
What is when a cold air mass pushes into a warm air mass
200
What symbol represents a warm front?
What is small half circles
300
What weather instrument measures the amount of rain that has fallen?
What is a rain gauge
300
Who is a person who studies the weather?
Who is a meteorologist
300
Where would a humid, warm air mass form over?
What is tropical waters
300
Why does weather move from the west to the east?
What is the rotation of Earth
400
What weather instrument measures wind speed?
What is an anemometer
400
What is wind?
What is the movement of air from high to low pressure areas
400
An air mass that forms over a desert would be ____ and ____
What is hot and dry
400
What do the symbols on a weather map show?
What is warm and cold fronts
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