Measuring Air Pressure
Vocabulary
Air Pressure Defined
8th grade
Adding Heat to air pressure
100

A device used for measuring air pressure.

What is barometer

100

The amount of mass in a given volume of air is its

Density

100

Air pressure is exerted in this direction

What is all directions.

100

Which teacher has a cat?

Ms. Wilkom

100

Warm air rises creating a _____ pressure zone

Low

200

What meteorologist use to measure atmosphere pressure

What is millibar

200

Is the condition of Earth's atmosphere

Weather

200

This balances air pressure pushing down

What is air pressure pushing up.

200

Who went to Chicago  University?

Ms. J

200

As air pressure increases, so does the ______of the molecules

Density

300

____ air pressure usually results in weather that is stormy, cloudy or overcast.

LOW

300

Earth's __________ is the envelop of gases that surrounds the planet.

Atmosphere

300

Pressure exerted by the weight of the air above

What is air pressure

300

what is Ms. Carr favorite color?

Purple

300

Is the air pressure the same inside a jar when heat is added?

No, its different

400

HIGH air pressure usually brings what type of weather?

Clear skies

400

Water Vapor is

water in the form of a gas

400

The three conditions affect air pressure 

Water Vapor, Temperature, and Altitude

400

Who has been teaching at Argosy the longest?

Mrs. Hughes

400

What happens when the air pressure is lower inside the jar than outside the jar?

the air gets pushed into the jar by the higher pressure outside the jar.

500

Standard sea-level pressure is....

What is 1013.2 millibars

500

______ or elevation is the distance above sea level.

Altitude

500

Air pressure is sometime referred to as 

Atmospheric pressure

500

Who is Spencer?

Ms. Bakers dog, pug

500

What is the relationship between air pressure and temperature?

As you  up to the top of a high mountain it is lower air pressure and cooler temperatures.