Changing Atmosphere
Weather Instruments
Wind Scale
Clouds
Forecasting
100
Boundary between two air masses.
What is a front.
100
The instrument that measures the speed of wind.
What is anemometor.
100
Who was it that came up with the scale for the wind?
Who is Beaufort, Francis.
100
What are the clouds that are close to the ground? Also known as fog.
What is stratus clouds.
100
This connects areas of equal pressure. What are these areas called?
What is isobars.
200
Where two air masses push up against each other without moving.
What is stationary front.
200
What is the instrument that measures the atmospheric pressure?
What is barometer.
200
What is the range of the wind scale?
What is 0-12.
200
What type of clouds are considered feathery?
What is cirrus clouds.
200
What is the symbol for the atmospheric condition?
What is a circle.
300
What do the letters H and L stand for on a weather map?
What is high and low pressure.
300
What is the instrument that measures the temperature?
What is thermometer.
300
I am a storm with lightning, thunder, and my energy comes from humid air. What am I?
What is a thunder storm.
300
What type of clouds are big and fluffy
What is cumulus clouds.
300
How can I tell if the pressure is increasing?
What is barometric pressure.
400
What two words identify the temperature of air masses?
What is tropical and polar.
400
What is the instrument that tells the direction of the wind?
What is wind vein.
400
I am a rotating column of air stretching from the cloud to the ground. What am I?
What is a tornado.
400
By looking at the clouds what can you tell?
What is predict the weather.
400
What symbol is used on a weather map to show the direction and speed?
What is a straight line with notches.
500
What type of weather system may include severe winter storms?
What is low pressure.
500
What career is it that forecasts the weather?
What is a meteorologist.
500
What were the objects of observations that Beaufort used to come up with the wind scale theory?
What is the flag and sea ripples.
500
In which elevation do ice crystals form in the clouds?
What is high elevation.
500
What are high speed winds that blow high above the Earth.
What is the jet stream.
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