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Weather Tools
Air Masses/Fronts
Thunder storms/Tornadoes
Hurricanes
Heat Transfer
Clouds/Pressure
Layers of the Atmosphere
100
A weather tool that measures air pressure
What is a barometer?
100

A blanket of air that surrounds the Earth

(Hint: It has layers like a cake.)

What is the atmosphere?

100

Does warm air rise or sink?

It rises

100

How hot does that ocean water have to be for hurricane conditions?

Greater than 80 degrees F

100
When the popcorn kernal gets heated in the oil on the pan?

What is conduction?

100

Puffy, white clouds that indicate fair weather

What are cumulus clouds?

100

Layer we live in. Most weather is in this layer.

Troposphere

200
A weather tool that measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
200

What type of air does a Tropical air mass bring

What is warm?

200

Is the pressure high or low at the center of a tornado?

Low

200

What is the storm called when wind speeds are 39 MPH and it gets a name.

Tropical STORM

200

An air fryer uses currents of air circulating to cook. What type of heat transfer is this?

What is convection?

200

High, wispy clouds made of ice that indicate a change in weather.

What are cirrus clouds?

200

Where meteors burn up

Mesosphere

300
A weather tool that measures water vapor
What is a hygrometer?
300

What type of Front: When a cold air mass pushes under a warm air mass. Fast moving and causes thunderstorms

What is a cold front?
300

What types of clouds are tornadoes formed from?

Cumulonimbus

300

How fast are wind speeds for it to be called a hurricane? (Lowest wind speed)

74 miles per hour

300
In our atmosphere, warm air rises and cooler air sinks; what type of heat transfer is this?

Convection

300

This means "dark cloud"

What is "nimbus"?

300

Layer that holds the Ozone Layer and commercial jets fly here.

Stratosphere

400
A weather tool that measures the amount of rainfall
What is a rain gauge?
400

What type of conditions would a continental polar air mass bring.  You must be specific.

Cold, dry air

400

What type of air does Tornado Alley receive from the Gulf of Mexico

/Warm, moist air

400

What weakens a hurricane?

Reaching Land

400

When the electromagnetic waves travel through a vacuum from the sun.

Radiation

400

This is a low lying cloud that looks like a blanket in the sky.

What are stratus clouds?

400

Big wind storms are in this layer: 320 km/hr

Mesosphere

500
The reason meteorologists use weather tools
What is to predict and record the weather?
500

What symbols are used for cold front and warm front on a map? You must get both correct.

Cold front: blue triangles

Warm front: red half circles

500

What type of air does Tornado Alley receive from the Rockies?

Cold dry air

500

For a hurricane to form it needs warm surface temp, energy rising with water vapor and _______ winds for convection. (strong or light)

Light winds

500

When boiling water, the water at the bottom of the pan gets heated and rises to the top. The colder water, that is more dense, sinks. What type of heat transfer?

Convection

500

As you climb a mountain, what happens to air pressure

It decreases

500

The northern and southern lights are here.

Thermosphere