Oral Exam Preparation

Question 1

Inventor of the Mercury Barometer

Answer 1

Italian physicist Evangelista Torricelli in 1643

Question 2

It has a glass tube that is closed at the top and open at the bottom.

Answer 2

Mercury Barometer

Question 3

Evangelista Torricelli invented this first before moving to mercury, all because of probably suspicion of using witchcraft.

Answer 3

Water Barometer

Question 4

A mercury barometer has a glass tube that is closed at the top—

Answer 4

and open at the bottom

Question 5

The mercury in the tube will adjust itself to match what?

Answer 5

The atmospheric pressure above the dish

Question 6

As the pressure increases the mercury will?

Answer 6

Pressure will force the mercury up the tube.

Question 7

The mercury tube has markings, why?

Answer 7

To tell where the mercury stops and what the air pressure is

Question 8

He invented the Aneroid Barometer in 1844.

Answer 8

French scientist Lucien Vidi

Question 9

It has a sealed metal chamber that expands and contracts, depending on the atmospheric pressure around it.

Answer 9

Aneroid Barometer

Question 10

The aneroid barometer has a circular display that indicates the?

Answer 10

Present number of atmospheres, much like a clock.

Question 11

Some aneroid barometers use a mechanical tool to track the changes in atmospheric pressure over a period of time. These aneroid barometers are called?

Answer 11

Barographs

Question 12

Barographs are barometers connected to needles that make marks on a roll of?

Answer 12

adjacent graph paper.

Question 13

The barograph records the number of atmospheres on the ______ axis and units of time on the ______.

Answer 13

-Vertical
-horizontal