Eleamates Of Weather Concepts

Question 0

Any form of water that falls from the atmosphere and reaches the ground as rain, sleet, snow, or hail

Answer 0

Precipitation

Question 1

The amount of the Sun’s energy that reaches Earth

Answer 1

Insulation

Question 2

Is a large region of air that has a similar temperature and humidity

Answer 2

Air Mass

Question 3

A device for measuring air pressure

Answer 3

Barometer

Question 4

Measures wind speed

Answer 4

Anemometer

Question 5

Measures the heat of the air

Answer 5

Thermometer

Question 6

Travel long distances around the world

Blows steadily over long distances in a predictable direction

Answer 6

Global Winds

Question 7

The force put on a given area by the weight of the air above it.

Answer 7

Air pressure

Question 8

The atmospheric layer of gases that is closet to Earth’s pressure

Answer 8

Troposphere

Question 9

Marks the edge of a incoming air mass

Answer 9

Fronts

Question 10

Is the amount of water vapor in the air

Answer 10

Humidity

Question 11

What is this?
1. Moves clouds /precipitation
2. Makes sea and land breezes
3. Makes global and local winds
4. Wind speed affects how temperature feels on our skin ( Wind chill)
And 5. Caused by pressure systems

Answer 11

Winds

Question 12

A measurement of the average energy of particles in a object.

Answer 12

Temperature

Question 13

Is the height above Earth’s sea level

Answer 13

Altitude

Question 14

This wind flows from east to west at altitudes above 12 kilometers

Answer 14

Jet stream

Question 15

What is this?

1. Dives all weather on earth
2. Heats land and water
3. Heats earth unevenly because earth is a sphere

Answer 15

Sun

Question 16

1. The closer it is to the equator the hotter it is
2. The farther away you are to the equator the colder it is
3. Imaginary lines drawn around the earth
   What is it?

Answer 16

Latitude

Question 17

Is a area where oxygen and other gases, clouds, and weather are.

Answer 17

Atmosphere

Question 18

A map that shows the weather in a specific point in time

Answer 18

Weather maps

Question 19

Tools used to find what the weather might be at a certain time

Answer 19

Weather Instruments

Question 20

1. These winds don’t travel far

2. Some types of these winds are land breeze, valley breeze, and mountain breeze

Answer 20

Local winds

Question 22

Dense

Answer 22

Cold front

Question 23

Has cool dry air and brings cooler, dry, and clear weather

Answer 23

High air pressure

Question 24

Has warm, humid air and forms clouds with stormy weather and precipitation

Answer 24

Low air pressure

Question 25

Less dense

Answer 25

Warm front