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Weather and Climate
Measuring Weather
Clouds
Forecasting
Mixed!
100
Air contains water vapor, carbon dioxide, oxygen and this element:
What is nitrogen?
100
This is used to determine how hot or cold it is.
What is a thermometer?
100
A cloud moves ___________ ______________ from one place to another.
What are water droplets?
100
This person is responsible for predicting the weather accurately.
What is a meteorologist?
100
An area of _____ pressure has dry, clear weather.
What is high pressure?
200
This is the condition of the atmosphere at a certain place and time.
What is weather?
200
This device measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
200
When clouds have a buildup of static electricity, it results in this.
What is lightning?
200
On a weather map, this is the name of the curved line with spikes.
What is a cold front?
200
This type of storm only forms over warm ocean water.
What is a hurricane?
300
This occurs when gases are trapped in the atmosphere, warming our planet.
What is the greenhouse effect?
300
This device measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
300
__________ occurs when clouds become heavy with water droplets.
What is condensation?
300
(warmer/cooler) air will hold more water vapor.
What is warmer air?
300
If the air pressure inside a house is greater than the pressure outside, air will move (out of the house/into the house) when a window is opened.
What is out of the house?
400
This is caused when warm air rises and cooler air sinks.
What is wind?
400
This device points into the wind to show where the wind is coming from.
What is a wind vane?
400
Water vapor in the air returns to the ground through this process.
What is condensation?
400
Air pressure is higher in (Boston/Denver)
What is Boston?
400
This is a place where two air masses meet.
What is a front?
500
This is the only layer of the atmosphere that has weather.
What is the troposphere?
500
Meterologists can use reports from a __________ to determine the severity of a hurricane and its direction.
What is a satellite?
500
These clouds look wispy in the air and are considered "fair weather" clouds.
What are cirrus clouds?
500
Meteorologists do not use (temperature/air pressure/day of the week/water vapor in the air) to forecast the weather.
What is the day of the week?
500
Ocean air often (heats/cools) the nearby land.
What is cools?