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Atmosphere
Air Pressure & Uneven Heating
Moving Air
Predicting Weather
Severe Weather
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This is the overall condition of the atmosphere at a given time and place.
What is weather?
100
The force exerted by air on a given area.
What is air pressure?
100
This is when warm air rises from the mountain slopes and cooler air from the valley moves up the slope to replace it.
What is a valley breeze?
100
This tool measures temperatures in degrees celsius or fahrenheit.
What is a thermometer?
100
A narrow spinning column of very fast moving air.
What is a tornado?
200
This gas makes up 78% of our atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen?
200
A tool that measures air pressure in units called millibars.
What is a barometer?
200
These are fast moving winds that occur in the troposhere.
What are jet streams?
200
This barometer has a dial connected to a small sealed can.
What is an aneroid barometer?
200
This strong storm is fueled by warm moist air from the ocean.
What is a hurricane?
300
This layer of the atmosphere is the second closest to earth and contains most of our ozone.
What is the stratosphere?
300
Earth's tilted axis can cause these to hit the surface unevenly.
What are the sun's rays?
300
This is what you call the side of the mountain that is very dry.
What is leeward?
300
This is a body of air that has about the same temperature and moisture throughout.
What is an air mass?
300
A storm that delivers lightning, thunder, and heavy rains.
What is a thuderstorm?
400
These are the layers of the atmosphere, in order, starting from Earth's surface.
What are troposhere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere?
400
During the portion of the year that the North Pole is tilted towards the sun, this is how the temperature at the South Pole would compare.
What is cooler?
400
These are long-lasting wind patterns that cover a large area of Earth.
What are planetary winds?
400
This tool can measure cloud temperature and density, water vapor, and land and water temperature using radio waves.
What is radar?
400
This may be called a thunderhead and is part of the mature stage in a thunderstorm.
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
500
Ozone absorbs this from the sun.
What is radiation?
500
This type of system is associated with clear, calm weather.
What is a high pressure system?
500
These prevailing winds have a great effect on the weather of the United States.
What are westerlies?
500
The difference between an anemometer and a wind vane is that one measures wind direction and one measures this.
What is wind speed?
500
The Earth's most sever storms may go by any of these three names.
What is hurricane, cyclone, and typhoon?