Vocabulary
Weather Instruments
Precipitation
Climate
True and false
100
What is humidity?
The amount of water vapor in the air
100
What does an anemometer measure?
Measures wind speed.
100
What is snow?
Single ice crystals to from snowflakes
100
What is the polar region?
Snowy cold earth region
100
True or false: temperature at which more condensation than evaporation occurs is humity
False. It is Dew point
200
What is air pressure?
Force of air molecules pushing on an area
200
What does a wind vane measure?
Measures which way the wind moves
200
What is sleet?
Small ice pellets that fall as sleet when it rains
200
What is desert region?.
Hot dry and humid land
200
True or false: the measure of the transparency of the atmosphere is visibility
True
300
What is wind?
Air that moves horizontally or parallel to the ground
300
What does a meter stick measure?
Measures length
300
What is rain?
When water droplets in a cloud get so big they fall to earth
300
What is the tropical region?
Plant growth close together and humid
300
An anemometer measures wind direction
False. It measures wind speed
400
What is front?
A boundary forms between The air masses
400
What does a barometer measure?
Measures air pressure
400
What is hail?
Layered lumps of ice that fall from the clouds
400
What is the definition of climate?
describes the weather conditions in an area over a long period of time
400
True of False? Conditions of earth's atmosphere at a certain time and place is climate
False. It is weather
500
What does a thermometer measure?
Measures temperature
500
What are the four forms of precipitation?
Rain, hail, snow, sleet
500
What is weather?
Condition of earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place
500
True or False? Long distance winds that travel above global winds for thousands of kilometers are called jet streams
True
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