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Instruments
Clouds
The air
The evil vocabulary!
Reveiw
100
This is what measures temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100
This is the type of cloud that you will most likely find close to the ground.
What are stratus clouds?
100
When the humidity is low this is absent in the air.
What is water?
100
This is visibility.
What is how far you can see?
100
These are the 3 ways that energy is transferred.
What is convection, conduction, and radiation?
200
A barometer is used to measure this.
What is air pressure?
200
T or F. Clouds are only able to form when the air pressure is higher above than below.
What is false?
200
This is the movement of air in a vertical way.
What is an up/downdraft?
200
Weather is described as this.
What is the condition of the earth's atmosphere at a certain time and place?
200
This is why winds have a curvature
What is the Coriolis effect?
300
Often measuring in millimeters, this instrument will gauge this.
What is rain?
300
These clouds are the only ones that you will see grow in height.
What are cumulus clouds?
300
This is a bag with bouth sides opin, and on at stick.
What is a windsock?
300
The dew point is the temperature at which this happens.
What is more condensation than evaporation?
300
This is the name of the layer of the atmosphere that contains the northern lights
What is the Ionoshere?
400
This is what will measure our humidity.
What is a psychrometer?
400
The average cloud will weigh about this.
What is the weight of 100 elephants?
400
Air pressure has this much force on the earth at sea level.
what is one kilogram per square centimeter?
400
Wind is caused by this aspect of the sun on the atmosphere.
What is pressure differences.
400
These are the names of the layers of the atmosphere
What is the troposphere, the stratosphere, the mesophere, and the thermospere.
500
If your in a sail boat, this could tell you how quick your voyage will be.
What is an anemometer?
500
The cirrus cloud is made of this.
What are ice crystals?
500
This is why fog will form on the ocean.
What is a cooler surfes?
500
Relative humidity is relative to this.
What is the amount of water that the atmosphere can hold at the time?
500
Eventhough the temperature of the thermosphere may be 1500 C or higher it will feal cool because of this.
What is low air pressure?