Weather Instruments
What is a thermometer
What is an instrument for measuring air and sea surface temperature
What happens when liquid water becomes warmer?
What is it can evaporate and becomes water vapor
What is air moving from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure called
What is wind
Where is the troposphere warmest
What is the surface
What is a barometer
What is an instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure
What happens when water vapor in an air parcel cools?
What is it can condense and form a cloud
Which way does wind mostly come from
What is east-west
Where is the troposphere coldest
What is its highest point
What is a rain gauge
What is an instrument for measuring liquid precipitation over a set period of time
Where does energy transfer from
What is hot to cold until their temperatures become equal
Winds move from _____
What is high to low
What happens when an air parcel is warmer than the surrounding air
What is it will rise
What is an anemometer
What is an instrument for measuring wind speed
What happens when an air parcel cools
What is more rainfall can happen
What does it mean if the wind is blowing away from the air parcel?
What is the air parcel will get warmer and won't get higher into the troposphere and won't rain that much
What happens when an air parcel rises
What is it will transfer energy until their temperatures become equal
What is a pyranometer
What is an instrument for measuring solar radiation
What makes rain happen
What is rain occurs when air rises into the upper atmosphere and cools. The cool temperatures cause water vapor to condense into water droplets, which fall from the clouds as rain when the air becomes saturated.
What does it mean if the wind is blowing in the direction of an air parcel?
What is the air parcel will go higher
What are periods of stability and periods of change