Air pressure/Humidity
This is what happens to air pressure as you move higher in the atmosphere
What is decreases?
A wind belt between the equator and 30 degrees that provides constant steady wind
What are the trade winds
what is evaporation
Used to measure air pressure
What is barometer
Clouds that produce rain and thunderstorms
What are cumulonimbus
The temperature at which air reaches saturation is called
What is dew point?
What is the global wind called that is created by low pressure zones at the equator with no wind due to air rising.
What are the doldrums.
How water vapor returns to liquid state in the air
what is condensation
used to measure air temperature
what is a thermometer
A type of cloud that forms a blanket over the sky of light colored clouds
What are stratus
the amount of water vapor in the empty spaces between air molecules.
What is relative humidity
a local wind that brings air from the ocean into the land due to unequal heating
what is a sea breeze
A type of precipitation that begins as rain but falls through air below 32 degrees.
what is sleet
used to measure humidity
what is a pychrometer
A fair weather cloud that looks like puffy cotton balls
What is cumulus
Temperature of air when the molecules are closer together?
What is cold
What global wind area has no wind around 30 degrees caused by high pressure zone of air sinking back towards the equator.
What are the horse latitudes
A method of water entering the atmosphere using trees
What is transpiration
used to measure wind speed
what is an anemometer
A type of cloud that brings rain for many hours/days
What is stratonimbus or nimbostratus
The lower the relative humidity, the __________ the air
What is Drier
The dominate wind belt for the United States causing our weather to move from west to east
How water returns to the ocean using rivers and streams
What is runoff
used to measure wind direction
what is a wind vane
A type of cloud that is describe as thin and wispy. Usually predicts rain in 1-2 days
What is cirrus.