Weather, Climate, and the Atmosphere
What is the atmosphere?
When you need to know the temperature outside, what instrument do you use?
What is a thermometer?
What is made/what is it called with 2 air masses meet?
What is a front?
A puffy cloud that signals fair weather.
What is a cumulus cloud?
A funnel-shaped cloud that reaches down from a storm cloud to touch the Earth’s surface.
What is a tornado?
True or False: the climate tells use the day-to-day state of the atmosphere?
What is false?
A wind vane is used to measure . . .
What is the wind direction?
If the barometer is rising, what air pressure does that indicate?
What is high air pressure?
A low, gray, layered cloud that covers the whole sky.
What is a stratus cloud?
The most common type of severe weather.
What is a thunderstorm?
Would we check the weather or the climate to see what the average temperature of Virginia is during the summer time?
What is climate?
A barometer is used to measure . . .
What is air pressure?
Cloudy, stormy skies with heavy winds describes this type of air pressure.
What is low air pressure?
Cumulonimbus clouds are associated with which type of weather?
What is stormy/bad weather?
Which types of severe weather are known for high winds?
What are thunderstorms, tornados, and hurricanes? (all of them)
Describe what weather means.
What is the day-to-day state of the atmosphere is a certain area?
After a big storm, the meteorologists say we got 8 inches of rain. What instrument did they use to measure this?
What is a rain gauge?
The type of air pressure you hope for if you plan to go camping outdoors.
What is a high air pressure?
Which clouds are fluffy, but BIG and dark?
What is Cumulonimbus?
Hurricanes form in tropical waters near the equator. They can not form in higher latitudes because the water is too _______.
What is cold?
Describe what climate means.
What is the average weather in a certain area over a long period of time?
What instrument measures how fast the wind is blowing outside?
What is an anemometer?
Which type of front is represented by a blue line with blue triangles on a weather map?
What is a cold front?
What type of cloud looks like a feather and is often see through.
What is a Cirrus cloud?
Which type of severe weather forms over water?
A hurricane