The average amount of energy of motion of each particle of a substance.
What is temperature?
100
This causes winds.
What is differences in air pressure?
100
This is a measure of the amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
100
This is any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches Earth's surface.
What is precipitation?
200
This has wavelengths that are longer than red light.
What is infrared radiation?
200
This is the freezing point on the Fahrenheit scale.
What is 32 degrees F?
200
This is the horizontal movement of air from an area of high pressure to an area of lower pressure.
What is wind?
200
This forms when water vapor in the air condenses to form liquid water or ice crystals.
What is clouds?
200
These are the five most common types of precipitation.
What is rain, sleet, freezing rain, snow and hail?
300
This is an invisible form of energy with wavelengths shorter than violet light.
What is ultraviolet radiation?
300
This device measures air temperature.
What is a thermometer?
300
This is the increased cooling a wind can cause.
What is wind-chill factor?
300
This is the percentage of water vapor that is actually in the air compared to the maximum amount of water vapor the air can hold at a particular temperature.
What is relative humidity?
300
An open-ended can or tube that collects rainfall.
What is a rain gauge?
400
This is a natural process by which gases hold heat in the atmosphere.
What is the greenhouse effect?
400
This is the total energy of motion in the particles of a substance.
What is thermal energy?
400
These are the two types of local winds.
What is land breeze and sea breeze?
400
These are wispy, feathery clouds.
What is cirrus clouds?
400
These are long periods of unusually low precipitation.
What is a drought?
500
Most of the energy from the sun travels to Earth in the form of this.
What is visible light and infrared radiation?
500
This heats the troposphere.
What is radiation, conduction, and convection?
500
These are the four main global wind belts.
What is doldrums, horse latitudes, trade winds, and prevailing westerlies?
500
You compare the readings of wet-bulb and dry-bulb thermometers to measure this.