Weather Instruments
Climate and Weather
The Water Cycle
Wind
Weather
100
An instrument used to measure air pressure
What is a barometer?
100
Day to day measurements of the state of the atmosphere
What is weather?
100
When water falls back to the earth in the form of rain, sleet, hail or snow
What is precipitation?
100
A river of wind high above the Earth's surface
What is the jet stream?
100
The amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
200
Measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
200
An average of weather collected over a 30 year period
What is climate?
200
When the sun's energy turns water into vapor
What is evaporation?
200
The jet stream flows in this direction
What is west to east?
200
Scientists who study weather
What is a meteorologist?
300
Measures the direction of wind
What is a wind/weather vane?
300
A scientist who studies climate
What is a climatologist?
300
Water vapor that collects and turns back into liquid form
What is condensation?
300
Wind moves from cooler places toward
What is warmer places?
300
How a cloud can move across states
What is wind?
400
Measures the temperature
What is a thermometer?
400
The H on a weather map stand for this
What is high pressure?
400
Water collected underground
What is groundwater?
400
During the day, land heats up faster than sea. Cooler sea air moves toward the land
What is a sea breeze?
400
Boston received 12 inches of snow. Before it can continue through the water cycle, it must first do this
What is melt?
500
The C and F on a thermometer stand for this
What is a Celsius and Fahrenheit?
500
Humidity along the coast would most likely be caused by this
What is evaporation from the surface of the ocean?
500
Nature's way of recycling water
What is the water cycle?
500
At night, land loses heat faster than the sea. Cooler air over land moves toward the sea
What is a land breeze?
500
The layer of atmosphere where weather occurs
What is the troposphere?
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