Instruments
Atmosphere
Wind
Predicting Weather
Misc.
100
Used to measure wind direction
What is wind vane?
100
The air around you, including all the gases that surround the earth.
What is the atmosphere?
100
The boundary between two air masses.
What is a front?
100
A measure of how far north or south a place is from the equator.
What is latitude?
100
This is not a source of freshwater?
What is an ocean?
200
Used to measure atmospheric pressure
What is a barometer?
200
The lowest layer of the atmosphere where almost all weather occurs.
What is the Troposphere?
200
Movement of air from land to water.
What is a land breeze?
200
A line on a weather may that connects places with equal air pressure.
What is an isobar?
200
Trees are an example of this.
What are renewable resources?
300
Used to measure wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
300
The conditions of the lower atmosphere at any given place or time.
What is weather?
300
Movement of air from water to the land.
What is a sea breeze?
300
Isobars that are closely spaced together would indicate this.
What are high wind speeds?
300
These are used to show that continents are not in the same position today as they were millions of years ago.
What are fossils?
400
Used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
400
The solar energy that reaches the earth.
What is insolation?
400
A wind that blows steadily in a predictable direction over long distances.
What is global wind?
400
Wind that blows steadily in a predictable direction over long distances.
What are global winds?
400
In any food web this group of organisms can make their own food.
What are producers?
500
Used to measure the moisture content in the atmosphere.
What is a hygrometer?
500
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
500
A large mass region of the atmosphere in which the air has similar properties throughout.
What is an air mass?
500
A person who reports and forecasts weather.
What is a meteorologist?
500
An omnivore gets energy from this.
What are plants and animals?
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