Skills Flashcards
1
Q
What measures wind?
A
Anemometer
2
Q
What measures air humidity?
A
Hygrometer
3
Q
What is the blue dotted line?
A
low pressure trough
4
Q
What is the blue spikey line?
A
Cold front
5
Q
What is the red bumpy line?
A
Warm front
6
Q
What are the black lines?
A
isobars
7
Q
What does the H and L mean?
A
High and low pressure region
8
Q
How do you know what direction a cold or warm front is moving?
A
It is the direction that the bumps/spikes are facing
9
Q
What is a GIS?
A
- Geographic information system
- computer system that analyzes and displays geographic information
10
Q
What is a clinometer?
A
instrument used for measuring angles of slope, elevation, or depression of an object
