Weather Tools
A weather instrument for measuring and indicating temperature, typically one consisting of a narrow, hermetically sealed glass tube marked with graduations
What is Thermometer
This layer causes all-weather; This layer has the most pressure out of all layers
What is Troposphere
A cold front is the leading edge of a cooler mass of air, replacing at ground level a warmer mass of air, which lies within a fairly sharp surface trough of low pressure.
What is Cold Front
This Climate Region is the closest to the Equator; places in this region tend to be hot due to the temperature
What is Tropical Region
The cycle of processes by which water circulates between the earth's oceans, atmosphere, and land
What is Water Cycle
This instrument measures the speed and direction of wind
What is Anemometer
This invisible layer is in the Stratosphere; protecting life on Earth from its UVR harmful effects from the sun
What is Ozone Layer
A density discontinuity located at the leading edge of a homogeneous warm air mass; results in a light drizzling rain
What is Warm Front
This Climate Region is the farthest from the Equator making the climate extremely cold
What is Polar Region
This cycle changes water vapor into water droplets forming clouds
What is Condensation
A scientific instrument that is used to measure air pressure in a certain environment.
What is Barometer
Added to the atmosphere by natural resources and human activities as it occurs in Earth's atmosphere as trace gases; for example; burning fossil fuels and an eruption of a volcano both release ___________
What is Carbon Dioxide
Has lower pressure at its center than the areas around it. Winds blow towards it, and the air rises in the atmosphere where they meet. As the air rises, the water vapor within it condenses forming clouds and often precipitation too.
What is Low Pressure System
This Climate region is moderate; the climate patterns change throughout the year making the climate fair and not as extreme
What is Temperate Region
The process of water movement through a plant and its evaporation from parts, such as leaves, stems, and flowers.
What is Transpiration
This weather instrument measures Relative humidity or how much water vapor there is in the air
What is Sling Psychrometer
coldest atmospheric layer surrounding Earth; most meteors burn up in this layer, also a type of lighting called sprites sometimes appears
What is Mesosphere
Forms when warm and cold air meet and neither air mass has the force to move the other. They remain standing still
What is Stationary Front
The weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period.
What is Climate
Any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls under gravity; falls as either rain, snow, sleet, or hail
What is Precipitation
A hygrometer is a weather instrument for measuring __________ of the air or a gas; (Pressure, the density of liquids, humidity)
What is Humidity
The height of an object or point in relation to sea level or ground level.
What is Altitude
A weather front formed during the process of cyclogenesis, when a cold front overtakes a warm front. When this occurs, the warm air is separated from the cyclone center at the Earth's surface
What is Occluded Front
True/False; Latitude and Elevation affect climate
What is True
When water tries to go back to the ocean (surface-water flow), but the ground is _______, it seeps through the ground traveling its way back underground to the ocean (ground-water flow)
What is Porous