Meteorology Vocab

Question 1

What is an air mass?

Answer 1

A huge body of air that has similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure.

Question 2

Air pressure = ?

Answer 2

The weight of air pushing down on an area.

Question 3

What tool do meteorologists use to measure wind?

Answer 3

An anemometer.

Question 4

Meteorologists = ?

Answer 4

Scientists who study weather.

Question 5

The gasses that protect Earth = ?

Answer 5

Atmosphere.

Question 6

What tool do meteorologists use to measure changes in air pressure?

Answer 6

Barometer.

Question 7

The year-after year weather due to the position of the globe… ?

Answer 7

Climate.

Question 8

A boundary where unlike air masses meet but don’t mix is… ?

Answer 8

Front.

Question 9

High pressure = ?

Answer 9

When cold air pressure is greater than its surroundings.

Question 10

Low pressure = ?

Answer 10

When hot pressure is less than its surroundings.

Question 11

Any form of water that falls from the clouds is called… ?

Answer 11

Precipitation.

Question 12

Psychrometer = ?

Answer 12

A tool used to measure humidity.

Question 13

A tool used to measure precipitation is… ?

Answer 13

A rain gauge.

Question 14

Temperature = ?

Answer 14

How hot or cold an object is compared to a reference object.

Question 15

Thermometer = ?

Answer 15

A tool used to mesure temperature

Question 16

Weather = ?

Answer 16

The day-to-day condition of Earth at a particular time and place.

Question 17

What is wind?

Answer 17

The horizontal movement of air from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure caused by the uneven heating by the sun.