Tools of the trade
What's the air over there?
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Climate and Seasons
...and other stuff
100
Measures air temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100
This is filled with energy, takes up a lot of space, and rises.
What is heat?
100
Evaporation occurs when air on the earth's surface is this.
What is warmed by the sun's energy?
100
The condition of air around us.
What is weather?
100
We live in this hemisphere.
What is the Northern Hemisphere?
200
Measures the amount of rain that has fallen.
What is a rain gauge?
200
This is caused by a high pressure mass moving to an area of low pressure.
What is wind?
200
Once a cloud has become heavy with water vapor, this occurs.
What is precipitation?
200
Air is made up of many things, including these three. (List three things in air)
What are oxygen, water, dust, and other gases?
200
These are the three ingredient of our "weather recipe".
What are pressure, moisture, and temperature?
300
Measures the amount of water vapor in the air.
What is a hygrometer?
300
When my barometer shows me today will be a beautiful day, I know the air pressure is this.
What is high air pressure?
300
This occurs when the water vapor cools as it rises through the atmosphere and forms clouds.
What is condensation?
300
The average or typical weather in a particular area.
What is climate?
300
Looking at a weather map, you can find this information.
What is the temperature, where cold fronts or warm fronts are moving, areas of high pressure and if there is precipitation?
400
Measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
400
This is true about cold air.
What is "it condenses and sinks"?
400
Plant sweat (sort of).
What is transpiration?
400
The layers of air around the earth.
What is atmosphere?
400
This is why it is warmer in the summer than the winter.
What is the earth's axis is tilted so the northern hemisphere receives more direct sunlight than during the winter.
500
Measures wind speed.
What is a anemometer?
500
When cold air and warm air meet, it creates this.
What is a storm?
500
Run off or collection can occur in several places, like these three.
What are glaciers, rivers, streams, aquifers, ponds, lakes, oceans?
500
The reason we have seasons.
What is the "earth's axis is tilted"?
500
It is currently this season in Australia.
What is summer?
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