Weather instruments
What is a barometer?
Flat, white and layered. Altitude up to 2,000m
What are stratus clouds?
The atmospheric conditions, along with short-term changes, of a certain place at a certain time.
What is weather?
As altitude decreases, then...
What is air pressure increases?
The instrument that measures the amount of water vapor in the air.
What is a psychrometer?
White, fluffy, heaped or piled up clouds with 2,000 to 6,000 m of altitude
What are cumulus clouds?
What is Humidity?
When a colder air mass moves toward a warmer air mass, a ____ forms.
What is a cold front?
Instrument that measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
Wispy clouds, above 6,000 m
What are cirrus clouds?
The large body of circulating air with high pressure at its center and lower pressure outside of the system
What is high pressure system
What causes weather to remain the same several says in a row?
What are air masses?
Scientists who study and predict weather, use specific variables that describe a variety of atmospheric conditions.
What is a meteorologist?
Cloud that forms at the earth’s surface
What is fog?
A boundary between two air masses
What is a front?
Fast-moving, drier but still cold is what type of air mass?
What is a continental polar air mass
Instrument to measure a tornado's intensity.
What is Fujita's intensity scale?
What are clouds made of?
What are water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere?
Violent, whirling column of air in contact with the ground
What is a tornado?
A violent winter storm characterized by freezing temperatures, strong winds and blowing snow.
What is a blizzard?
What causes air to reach its dew point?
What is dropping temperatures?