Weather Tools
Weather Factors
Properties of Air
Atmosphere
Misc.
100

This measures humidity.

What is a hygrometer?
100

This weather factor is measured in inches or millibars.

What is air pressure?

100

This is what happens to air particles that are trapped in a syringe and the plunger is pushed down.

What is compressed?

100

The atmosphere protects us from this.

What is radiation?

What is meteors?

100

This is the day to day conditions of the atmosphere.

What is weather?
200

This measures temperature.

What is a thermometer?

200

This factor is measured as a % using a hygrometer.

What is humidity?
200

This is what happens to the air pressure when you increase altitude.

What is decreases?

200

The atmosphere keeps this within a range that we can survive.

What is temperature?

200

This is the collection and average of 30 years of weather data.

What is climate?
300

The is the unit for measuring wind speed.

What is miles per hour?

300

This factor should be measured somewhere there is nothing to block it's collection.

What is precipitation?

300

This is what the layer of gases that surrounds the earth is called.

What is the atmosphere?
300

The layer of the atmosphere contains the all-important ozone layer.

What is the stratosphere?

300

This is what meteorologists look for when recording the weather so that they can make a forecast.

What are patterns?

400

This is the factor that is measured by a barometer.

What is air pressure?

400

This factor is measured in mph using an anemometer.

What is wind speed?

400

This is a way that we can prove that air has mass.

What is measure the weight of an object empty and then full of air?

400

This is the layer of the atmosphere in which we live.

What is the troposphere?

400

This is the amount of matter in an object.

What is mass?

500

This tool measures wind direction.

What is a wind vane?

500

This is the scientist who studies the weather.

What is a meteorologist?

500

This happens to the size and number of air particles when they are compressed.

What is nothing?

500

This is the furthest layer from the surface of the earth.

What is the exosphere?

500

This is what anything that takes up space and has mass is called.

What is matter?

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