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Meterologist
Atmosphere
Winds
Clouds
Air Pressure
100
Used to measure air temperature.
What is thermometer?
100
Weather occurs in this layer.
What is troposhpere?
100
The _________ scale is used to measure winds.
What is Beaufort?
100
The main process behind cloud formation.
What is condensation?
100
Air pressure is measured with this instrument.
What is barometer?
200
Weather vane is useful when studying the ________ direction in weather.
What is wind?
200
This is the outermost layer of the Earth's atmoshpere.
What is exosphere?
200
Wind speed can be measured using a device called ________.
What is anemometer?
200
A cloud is composed of tiny _______ _________.
What is water droplets or ice crystals?
200
Heat energy in the Earth's atmosphere is transferred by _________.
What is convection?
300
Barometric pressure is rising, the weather is_____.
What is getting better?
300
The earth is protected from meteoroids because of a _____.
What is mesosphere?
300
Fast flowing river of air found in the atmosphere.
What is jet stream?
300
Low lying formless cloud, called fog when the base lies on the ground.
What is stratus?
300
Where does convection happen? (Three answers)
What is ocean, earth's mantle, and atmosphere?
400
Who invented the barometer?
Who is Evangelista Torricelli?
400
Ozone layer is located in the __________.
What is stratosphere?
400
Air movements toward the equator are called _______ winds.
What is trade winds?
400
Thickly layered water droplet cloud.
What is altostratus?
400
Sea level air pressure is ________ than on top of a mountain.
What is higher?
500
Describe why a meteorologist would use a barometer.
What is seeing changes in weather?
500
Temperature increases with altitude in this atmosphere.
What is thermosphere?
500
An area of calm weather is called a ___________.
What is doldrums?
500
Thunderstorm clouds that form if cumulus clouds continue to grow vertically.
What is cumulonimbus?
500
Three factors that affect air pressure.
What is temperature, water vapor, and elevation?