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Tell Me About Weather
100
This is the angle at which sunlight strikes the Earth's surface.
What is the angle of insolation?
100
This is the name for the amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
100
This type of cloud is formed at very high altitudes out of ice crystals and has a featherlike shape.
What is a cirrus cloud?
100
Air is mostly made up of oxygen and this other gas.
What is nitrogen?
100
This device is used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
200
This area of the earth is the hottest because the Sun's path is directly over it at midday.
What is the equator?
200
This is described as a comparison of condensation and evaporation.
What is relative humidity?
200
This is formed when supercooled water freezes around an ice nucleus and grows larger.
What is snow?
200
An unequal heating and cooling of the air makes this pattern of rising air, sinking air, and winds.
What is a convection cell?
200
These devices are used to tell wind direction.
What is a weather/wind vane?
300
This type of surface gets warmer than other surfaces because light is caused to bounce at many angles on it.
What is a rough surface?
300
When air rises and cools, this is what happens to the water vapor in the air.
What is condenses (into clouds)?
300
The complex web of water moving in and out of air's atmosphere is known as this.
What is the water cycle?
300
At night these breezes are caused by land cooling air more rapidly than air over water.
What are land breezes?
300
Winds of over 118 mph are given this name on the Beaufort scale.
What are hurricanes?
400
This layer of the atmosphere is closest to the Earth's surface.
What is the troposphere?
400
We feel sticky when the relative humidity is high because less of this can evaporate.
What is water/sweat?
400
Skies that are completely covered in clouds are known as this on a weather station model.
What is overcast?
400
Pilots have to take this into account when flying to make sure they land at their target correctly.
What is the Coriolis effect?
400
This device is used to measure wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
500
The height of the air column goes in this direction as you go higher in altitude, thus the air pressure becomes less.
What is shorter?
500
This is the process of leaves on plants giving off water.
What is transpiration?
500
Clouds are grouped into families based on form and this other characteristic.
What is height?
500
On a map these connecting lines tell which places have equal air pressure.
What are isobars?
500
These storms can be deadly, but can also provide necessary rain for farming crops.
What are monsoons?