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Measuring Devices
Standard units
Weather equipment
Describing Weather
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100
List 3 types of thermometers.
What are digital, bimetallic, and Bourdon-tube?
100
The fiducial points on the Fahrenheit scale.
What are 32 degrees and 212 degrees?
100
Shows wind direction
What is a wind vane?
100
Lines connecting weather stations with equal barometric pressures.
What are isobars?
100
Can be used to track temperature changes over the course of a day.
What is a thermograph?
200
An early device that measured temperature by measuring the change in the volume of a confined gas.
What is a thermoscope?
200
List two units of pressure.
What are newtons per square meter, millimeters of mercury, millibars, and pounds per square inch?
200
Has a sensing bulb outside a building.
What is a Bourdon tube thermometer?
200
At least 3 things contained in a METAR message.
What is visibility, dew point, precipitation
200
Invented the mercurial barometer?
Who is Torricelli?
300
Measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
300
Unit for wind speed.
What is knot?
300
Device to alert to the presence of a tsunami.
What is an automated buoy?
300
Lines on a map connecting weather stations that report equal temperatures.
What are isotherms?
300
A barometer that contains no liquid.
What is an aneroid barometer?
400
Describe the area where meteorologists usually place a rain gauge in order to obtain accurate measurements.
What is 1 - 2 meters above the ground in an open space.
400
Does a Fahrenheit degree indicate a larger temperature interval or a smaller temperature interval than a Celsius degree?
What is smaller?
400
Give the acronyms for the 2 types of weather satellites that the NOAA uses to monitor Earth's weather.
What are GOES and TIROS-N?
400
Fog that sublimes onto surfaces to form strange and unique shapes.
What is rime ice?
400
Used change in hair length to measure humidity.
What is hygrometer?
500
Uses a wick and a water reservoir.
What is a stationary psychrometer?
500
Average atmospheric pressure at sea level.
What is 1013 mb or 14.7 lb/square inch?
500
The 4 principal weather maps produced daily by the National Weather Service.
What are synoptic weather charts?
500
Displays plotted weather data in a symbolic format.
What is a station model?
500
Gives quick, accurate humidity measurements.
What is a sling psychrometer?