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Instruments
Clouds
Pressure
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Various Defs
100
Measures air temperature
What is a thermometer?
100
This cloud forms in a blanket like layer
What is a stratus cloud?
100
The force of the air pushing on an area
What is air pressure?
100
The daily condition of the atmosphere
What is weather?
100
Measures humidity
What is a hygrometer?
200
Measures precipitation
What is a rain gauge?
200
This cloud is puffy and appears to rise from a flat bottom
What is cumulus cloud?
200
This is the pressure when cool air presses closely together, and this makes good weather
What is high pressure?
200
The sun's energy heats up the Earth's surface and when the surface heats up, it warms the air above.
What is air temperature?
200
The average weather in a certain place for a long period of time
What is climate?
300
Measures air pressure
What is a barometer?
300
This cloud forms at a high altitude with a feather like shape, and is made of ice crystals
What is a cirrus cloud?
300
When warm air spreads apart, this makes bad weather
What is low pressure?
300
The measurement of how much water is in the air
What is humidity?
300
Very large regions of air with the same weather
What is air mass?
400
Measures wind direction
What is a weather vane?
400
This cloud is full of rain
What is a nimbus cloud?
400
A boundary between air masses where the warm air mass slides up and over the cold air mass
What is a warm front?
400
Water falls to Earth as rain, snow, sleet, hail and mist
What is precipitation?
400
A boundary between air masses that have different temperatures.
What is a front?
500
Measures wind speed
What is anemometer?
500
If warm air does the pushin who is doing the pushin
What is a warm front?
500
Shows weather conditions at a certain time and place, also shows the locations of fronts, wind direction, temperature and air pressure.
What is a weather map?
500
Air in motion, caused by the uneven heating of Earth and atomosphere. Warm air goes up, cool air goes down.
What is wind?
500
A boundary where cold air pushes under warm air
What is cold front?