Air and Pressure
Instruments
Weather
Predicting Weather
100
A line connecting all points having the same air pressure.
What is an isobar?
100
What do you measure air pressure with?
What is a barometer?
100
A tornado before it hits the ground.
What is a funnel cloud?
100
True or false. Groundhog Day has been scientifically proven to be accurate.
What is false?
200
Another word for high pressure having to do with cyclones.
What is an anticyclone?
200
What is the name of the tool measuring precipitation?
What is a rain gauge?
200
Other names for hurricanes.
What are typhoons?
200
This is done to weather information before it is sent out to all National Weather Service stations.
What is put in code?
300
Large bodies of air that have relatively the same temperature and moisture.
What is an air mass?
300
The instrument that shows the direction of the wind.
What is a wind vane?
300
Thunderstorms contain both _____ and _____.
What are updrafts and downdrafts?
300
The things that weather balloon out to record.
What is pressure, humidity, or temperature?
400
The center of tornados are areas of what?
What is low pressure?
400
Name the two kinds of barometers.
What are mercury barometers and aneroid barometers?
400
List what needs to happen for a thunderstorm to form.
What is moist air pushed up from a sloping cold front and rapid rising hot air from the groud?
400
This symbol mean this is a(n).
What is an occluded front?
500
In what direction do cyclones spin?
What is counterclockwise?
500
Two thermometers are used. One thermometer has the bulb wrapped with a piece of material that can be moistened. Air is forced over both thermometers. Water evaporates from the wet bulb thermometer, cooling the bulb. The wet bulb is lower than the dry bulb temperature. This difference in temperature can be converted to what?
What is relative humidity?
500
The miles or kilometers of a hurricane.
What is 400 miles or 600 kilometers?
500
The symbol on weather maps that tells of total sky coverage
What are circles fully or partially filled?