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Measuring Wind
Measuring Temperature
Measuring Air Pressure
The Atmosphere
Reading Graphs
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This is the instrument that reads the wind direction
What is a wind vane?
100
This is the instrument that we use to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100
This is the instrument we use to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
100
This can be thought of as a blanket that surrounds the earth.
What is the atmosphere?
100
This part of a graph tells the reader what information they can expect to find.
What is the title?
200
This is the instrument that measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
200
This is the unit of measurement we use to tell temperature in the United States.
What is Fahrenheit?
200
This is what happens to air pressure as you go up further into our atmosphere.
What is it decreases?
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This is the part of the atmosphere in which we live.
What is the troposphere?
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This part of a line or bar graph is the line that goes horizontally across the bottom.
What is the x-axis?
300
This is the scale that rates how fast the wind is going.
What is the Beaufort Wind Scale?
300
This is the unit of measurement we would use to measure temperature if we were in Europe.
What is Celsius?
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This is what happens to air pressure as you go down lower in our atmosphere.
What is it increases?
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This is the outermost layer of our atmosphere.
What is the exosphere?
300
This part of the graph goes up and down along the side.
What is the y-axis?
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When using a wind vane, you will also need this instrument to make sure you are facing the right direction.
What is a compass?
400
This is what we call a thermometer that has Fahrenheit on one side and Celsius on the other.
What is a dual thermometer?
400
Why might an infant on a plane be crying and holding his ears?
What is he can feel the air pressure change in his ears?
400
This layer is just above the troposphere.
What is the stratosphere?
400
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500
We say wind is blowing at a 12, the strongest possible, if this sort of weather is happening.
What is a hurricane?
500
This is what we should see happening to the temperature very soon.
What is a decrease?
500
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500
This layer is just above the stratosphere?
What is the mesosphere?
500
This is why we said we couldn't completely count on our in class line graph to tell us if the weather is getting cooler.
What is we didn't have enough data?