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Temperature and Pressure
What Causes Weather?
Wind and Humdity
Measuring Weather
Miscellaneous Vocabulary
100
To measure temperature, you would use..
What is a thermometer?
100
What is happening in the atmosphere at a particular time and place is called this..
What is weather?
100
The instrument that tell you the direction of the wind is called this..
What is a wind vane?
100
A place where two air masses meet is called this...
What is a front?
100
Any water that falls from the sky is called this..
What is precipitation?
200
To measure air pressure you would use..
What is a barometer?
200
All weather can be traced to the effect of the Sun and wind's energy on this..
What is the atmosphere?
200
The instrument that tells you the speed of the wind is called this..
What is an anemometer?
200
Name a tool a meteorologist would use to measure weather.
What is an anemometer, thermometer, barometer, rain gauge..?
200
This weather instrument is used to measure precipitation..
What is a rain gauge?
300
The degree of hot or coldness is called this..
What is temperature?
300
Earth is kept warm by..
What is layers of air or ozone?
300
The name of the instrument used to measure humidity?
What is a hydrometer?
300
A map that shows weather data for a large area is called..
What is a weather map?
300
This is a person who studies and predicts the weather..
What is a meteorologist?
400
If the air pressure is high, we can expect to have this kind of weather..
What is dry?
400
In what part of the atmosphere does weather take place?
What is the troposphere, the layer next to Earth's surface?
400
What component of weather is wind associated with?
What is moving air?
400
In a place where two fronts meet, what type of weather can you expect?
What is precipitation?
400
What is one way type of weather data that is collected?
What is a temperature, precipitation, air pressure, wind speed, direction, and cloud cover?
500
Wind blows because of differences in..
What is air pressure?
500
The three parts of weather are..
What is temperature, precipitation, and wind?
500
What kinds of weather would probably have the strongest winds?
What is a hurricane?
500
What is one way that meteorologists gather weather data?
What is weather planes, satellites, weather balloons, and computers?
500
The 4 components of weather are..
What is temperature, air pressure, moving air, and precipitation?