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Vocab
Air Pressure
Wind
Labs
Miscellaneous
100
The force exerted by air
What is air pressure
100
What temp. of air would low pressure be represented with?
What is warm air
100
How is a wind named?
What is where is comes from
100
What heated the fastest in the heating of land and water lab?
What is land
100
What type of breeze is observed at night?
What is land breeze
200
Air in motion
What is wind
200
The lines drawn on maps that have numbers near them
What is isobars
200
Which direction does the wind go in the northern and southern atmosphere?
What is to the right in the northern and left in the southern
200
Why did the water come out of the cup when you let go of the straw in the cups, straws, and bins lab?
What is the pressure was uneven and the water was forced down and air when in the cup
200
How air move about?
What is travels from high pressure to low pressure
300
Instrument used to measure air pressure
What is barometer
300
Which is more dense, warm or cool air?
What is cool/cold air
300
What breeze would occur in the afternoon during summer?
What is sea breeze
300
What happened once the light was turned off in the heating lab?
What is the land cooled quickly and the water stayed the same temp. and even went up a little
300
What direction do winds travel in the northern hemisphere?
What is counter-clockwise
400
Change in atmospheric pressure
What is pressure gradient
400
What liquid is at the bottom of a barometer?
What is mercury
400
Name of the winds at 0 degrees
What is trade winds
400
Why did the water temp. stay the same once the light was turned off?
What is the water went through convection causing the water to stay warm
400
Who created the Coriolis effect?
What is Gustave-Gaspard Coriolis
500
Deflection of wind caused by the rotation of the earth
What is coriolis effect
500
What happens to a barometer when the is a low pressure system? (Be descriptive)
What is the mercury drops down the tube and fills the container at the bottom
500
Name of winds at 30 degrees
What is prevailing winds
500
What caused the can to collapse in the demo and why
What is the surroundings had a higher pressure than the can and the air tried to get in the can but crushed it at its weakest points, the sides.
500
Who created the barometer?
What is Evangelista Torricelli