Weather comes from the interaction of what three things?
What is heat, air, and water vapor.
100
A device for measuring temperature.
What is a thermometer.
100
This wind zone lies at both the North and South Pole. The prevailing winds are northeasterly in the Northern Hemisphere and southeasterly in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is the polar zone
100
These clouds are puffy, bulgy, fat and fluffy.
What are cumulus clouds.
100
The atmospheric conditions at a certain time and place.
What is weather?
200
the humidity relative to saturated air.
What is relative humidity.
200
A device that measures air pressure.
What is a barometer.
200
This zone lies between the polar zones and tropical zones of either hemisphere, and the prevailing winds are called the westerlies.
What is the temperate zone.
200
a flat, heavy blanket of low clouds usually is this kind of cloud.
What are stratus clouds.
200
The year round weather typical of a certain place.
What is Climate.
300
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity.
300
This device measures both dry and wet temperatures, and based on the difference between the two temperatures, the humidity can be determined.
What is hygrometer
300
This zone is where the Northern and Southern Hemisphere converge, or meet. It rests approximately at the equator but changes with the seasons.
What is known as the Intertropical Convergence Zone, or ITCZ.
300
The delicate, thin clouds that float near the top of the troposphere are these kind of clouds.
What are cirrus clouds.
300
the imaginary line running through the center of the earth from pole to pole.
What is the axis.
400
The temperature at which cooling air becomes saturated.
What is the dew point.
400
This device is used to determine which the wind is blowing.
What is a wind vane.
400
This zone rests in the region where tropical climates are found and surrounds the equator as well as the ITCZ.
What is the tropical zone
400
These kind of clouds resemble a double convex lens.
What are lenticular clouds.
400
This equals 365 1/4 days, and means Earth has completed one revolution around the sun.
What is the solar year.
500
What are the 5 most important properties of air?
What is temperature, pressure, humidity, wind direction, and wind speed.
500
This device is used to measure wind speed.
What is an anemometer.
500
These latitudes of the world are windless. There is no surface winds. These latitudes are called as such because sailors would have to throw horses overboard because of their crave for thirst.
What is the horse latitudes.
500
These mighty clouds resemble giant anvils and are known as thunderheads.
What are cumulonimbus clouds.
500
The tendency of a moving object to continue moving in the same direction until a force acts upon it to stop it or slow it down.