What is a wind vane?
What is a weather vane?
What is a wind sock?
100
this is needed in order for evaporation to occur
What is the sun?
100
This occurs when air masses of extremely different temperatures come together.
What are tornadoes?
100
when two air masses meet, the boundary between them is named this
What is a front?
100
a person who studies the atmosphere and reports and forecasts weather conditions is named this
What is a meteorologist?
200
a weather instrument that measures the degree of hotness or coldness
What is a thermometer?
200
the phase of the water cycle in which water turns into water vapor
What is evaporation?
200
this occurs over the Pacific Ocean and affects world wide weather.
What is "El Nino?"
200
this occurs when a warm air mass takes the place of a cold air mass
What is a warm front?
200
the hour by hour, day by day state of conditions in the atmosphere
What is weather?
300
a rain gauge measures this
What is precipitation?
300
the phase of the water cycle in which water vapor turns into water droplets
What is condensation?
300
This is the hollow spot in the center of a hurricane.
What is "the eye of the storm".
300
this occurs when a cold air mass takes the place of a warm air mass
What is a cold front?
300
This instrument helps pilots how high they are flying. It measures atmospheric pressure to show altitude.
What is an altimeter?
400
the name of the weather instrument that measures air pressure
What is barometer?
400
the phase of the water cycle in which any form of water, such as rain or snow, falls to Earth's surface
What is precipitation?
400
The is the soundwave that occurs when a bolt of lightening heats the air to 5 times the temperature of the sun.
What is thunder?
400
in this pressure system, you can expect sunny, cool, windy weather, with air moving in a clockwise direction
What is a high pressure system?
400
this occurs at night, when cool air blows from the land towards the sea
What is a land breeze?
500
a weather instrument that measures wind speed
What is anemometer?
500
clouds form during this phase of the water cycle
What is condensation?
500
Storms are caused by these three conditions.
What is heat of the sun, water in the air, spin of the earth.
500
in this pressure system, you can expect warm, cloudy weather, with high moisture and precipitation. The air in this system moves in a counter-clockwise direction