Weather Instruments
This instrument is used to measure air temperature
What is a thermometer?
An object that is a good absorber is also a good
What is radiator?
The collision of molecules within a substance results in the transfer of energy by
What is conduction?
Sea breezes occur during this time
What is daytime?
What is nitrogen?
This instrument is used to measure air pressure
What is a barometer?
When a wave bends or changes direction when passing through a new material
What is refract or refraction?
Starlight travels through space through this process
What is radiation?
During a land breeze, there is higher air pressure over this area
What is land?
Water vapor is only found in these two layers of the atmosphere
What is the troposphere and the stratosphere?
This instrument is used to tell what direction the wind is blowing
What is a weather vane?
Good reflectors have this color AND texture
What is light in color and smooth in texture?
Earth loses heat energy to outer space mainly by this method of heat transfer
What is radiation?
This type of material has the highest specific heat
What is liquid water?
As altitude increases, air pressure does what
What is decrease?
This instrument is used to measure wind speed
What is an anemometer?
The most common form of electromagnetic radiation coming from the sun is called
What is visible light?
The process by which air flows from one location in the atmosphere to another is called
What is convection?
The density of air molecules during a sea breeze is higher over this area
Because of this, as one travels from the tropopause to the stratopause, the temperature increases
What is the ozone layer?
This instrument is used to measure humidity and dewpoint
What is a sling psychrometer?
Good reflectors have this kind of angle of incidence of radiation
What is a low angle of incidence?
Eggs cooking on a hot pan would be an example of this method of heat transfer
What is conduction?
This is how winds are named
What is where a wind originates?
All weather occurs in this layer of the atmosphere
What is the troposphere?