Weather Instruments
Measure temperature of the air.
This drives the water cycle.
What is the sun?
What are the four seasons?
Current conditions of the atmosphere in a given time and place.
What is weather?
Current conditions of the atmosphere in a given time and place.
What is weather?
This measures the speed of the wind.
What is an anemometer?
Moving air.
What is wind?
The Northern and Southern Hemisphere experience __________ seasons.
What is opposite?
A climate cycle in the Pacific Ocean that causes WARMING?
What is el nino?
We live in which climate zone?
What is a rain gauge?
Rain, sleet, hail, snow.
What is precipitation?
The ________ gets the most direct sunlight from the sun´s radiation.
What is the equator?
A river of fast moving air that forms between air masses.
What is the jet stream?
Three major climates zones.
What are temperate, tropical, and polar?
Cumulus clouds bring this type of weather.
What is fair weather?
The tilt of the Earth´s axis causes the 4 _________.
What are seasons?
A current of water that moves warm water from the equator towards the North Pole in the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the gulf stream?
Average weather conditions for a time and place over a long period of time.
This measures the amount of moisture in the air (aka humidity).
What is hygrometer?
What type of weather do stratus clouds bring?
What is light right?
These regions receive the least amount of radiation from the sun, because of the curvature of the Earth.
What are the polar regions?
What is convection?
Greenhouse effect is the leading cause of ________.