What the lower atmosphere is like at any given place and time.
What is weather?
100
The blanket of gases that surrounds the earth.
What is atmosphere?
100
A device for measuring air pressure.
What is a barometer?
100
Wind that blows from land to sea.
What is land breeze?
100
The slow changing of a liquid into a gas.
What is evaporation?
200
A boundray between air masses with different temperatures.
What is a front?
200
A high-altitude cloud with a featherlike shape, made of ice crystals.
What is cirrus cloud?
200
Measure wind direction
What is a weather vane (wind vane)?
200
Wind from a smaller area of high pressure to a smaller area of low pressure.
What is local wind?
200
A form of matter that takes up a definite amount of space and has no definite shape.
What is liquid?
300
A front where cold air moves in under a warm air mass.
What is a cold front?
300
The layer of the atmosphere closest to the Earth's surface
What is troposphere?
300
Used to measure the amount of precipitation
What is rain gauge?
300
Wind that blows from sea to land
What is sea breeze?
300
The changing of a gas into a liquid.
What is condensation?
400
A pattern surrounding a high pressure center from which winds blow outward. In the Northern Hemisphere these winds curve to the right in a colckwise pattern.
What is high pressure?
400
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
400
Used to measure the air temperature.
What is thermometer?
400
A circular pattern of air rising, air sinking, and wind.
What is convection cell?
400
The continuous movement of water between Earth's surface and the air, changing from liquid to gas to liquid.
What is the water cycle?
500
Using weather data and models to make predictions of future weather events and conditions.
What is forecasting?
500
A cloud that forms in a blanket-like layer.
What is stratus?
500
Measures wind speed
What is anemometer
500
A belt of wind that is set in motion around Earth by air moving from high pressure zones toward low pressure at the Equator.
What is global wind (trade wind)?
500
A form of matter that does not take up a definite amount of space and has no definite shape.