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Weather Instruments
Weather and ?
Storms
Air
H2O from the sky
100
What is the device used to measure temperature?
thermometer
100
The average year after year conditions of temperature and precipitation in an area.
What is climate?
100
What do we call a sudden spark or electrical discharge?
Lightning.
100
A huge body of air with similar temperature, humidity and air pressure throughout is a ....
Air mass
100
Drops of water at least 0.5mm in diameter.
What is rain?
200
What is the device that shows wind direction?
Wind Vane
200
The climate zone located between the Polar and Tropical zones.
What is the Temperate zone?
200
Rapidly heated air expanding and contracting can cause this.
What is thunder?
200
The location where two different air masses meet but do not mix.
What is a front?
200
Frozen particles of ice smaller than 5mm in diameter.
What is sleet?
300
What is the decive that measures wind speed?
Anemometer
300
What is a small area with different climate conditions than those around it?
Microclimate.
300
Another name for a cumulonimbus cloud is a?
What is a thunderhead?
300
A warm, dry air mass.
Continental tropical.
300
Raindrops that freeze after hitting a cold surface can cause this kind of storm.
What is an ice storm?
400
Measures air pressure without a liquid.
Aneroid Barometer
400
A moderate climate with relatively mild winters and cool summers.
What is a Marine climate?
400
This is a storm that forms over the warm ocean water with winds of less than 70 mph.
Tropical storm
400
These two air masses are responsible for the formation of tornadoes in "tornado alley".
Continental polar and Maritime tropical.
400
A long period of unusually low precipitation is called a ...
Drought.
500
What is the device that measures relative humidity?
Psychrometer
500
This climate area is the result of being far from large bodies of water; it has cold winters and warm to hot summers.
What is a continental climate?
500
This is the result of cold dry air moving across large lakes picking up heat and moisture as they do.
Lake-effect snow.
500
Another name for a swirling center of high air pressure.
Anticyclone.
500
In what season are you most likely to experience hail?
Summer.