Weather Review Jeopardy

Weather Instruments

100

Question 2

Instrument: Wind Vane

What it measures: The direction that the wind is blowing. 

200

Question 1

Instrument name: Rain gauge

What it measures: The amount of precipitation that falls

300

Question 4

Instrument name: Anemometer

What it measures: The wind speed. 

400

Question 3

Instrument name: Barometer

What it measures: Air pressure/air pressure changes.

500

Question 5

Geostationary satellites orbit with the Earth (over the same location) and polar orbiting satellites orbit from pole to pole (N. Pole to S. Pole).

Geostationary satellites orbit in horizontal plane and polar satellites orbit in vertical planes. 

Weather Variables

100

Question 6

Dew Point

200

Question 8

The weight of the air. 

300

Question 7

A form of liquid that falls from clouds - rain, sleet, snow, freezing rain, hail. 

Calculations

100

Question 11

human error (estimation error, transcriptional error), procedural error, environmental error, instrumental error

200

Question 10

12.7 mm

300

Question 9

0 degrees Celsius

400

Question 12

Errors in rounding, errors in reading data, errors in measurements, etc...