Weather

Question 1

Air pressure is measured with…

Answer 1

A barometer

Question 2

Air pressure is measured in….

Answer 2

millibars

Question 3

High air pressure brings…

Answer 3

Fine, clear, cloudless weather with hot days and cooler evenings. In winter it brings frost

Question 4

Low pressure brings…

Answer 4

stormy, unsettled, rainy, wet, windy weather

Question 5

A large area of high pressure is called an…

Answer 5

anticyclone

Question 6

A large area of low pressure is called a

…

Answer 6

depression

Question 7

Sunlight is measured with…

Answer 7

A campbell-stokes sunshine recorder

Question 8

Sunshine is measured in…

Answer 8

Sunshine hours

Question 9

What is atmospheric pressure?

Answer 9

The weight of gases pushing down on the earth

Question 10

Which air mass was responsible for the “Beast from the East?”

Answer 10

Polar Continental

Question 11

What is a rain shadow?

Answer 11

A rain shadow is an area of dry land on one side of a mountain where it rains heavily on the other

Question 12

How does a rain shadow occur?

Answer 12

When warm, moist air is forced up a mountainside where it causes heavy rain, and then it dries and sinks on the other side of the mountain

Question 13

What is wind speed measured in?

Answer 13

kph

Question 14

what is wind speed measured with?

Answer 14

an anenometer

Question 15

What is wind direction measured with?

Answer 15

weather vane

Question 16

What is precipitation measured with?

Answer 16

rain gauge

Question 17

what is precipitation measured in?

Answer 17

millimeters

Question 18

what is cloud cover measured in?

Answer 18

oktas

Question 19

what is cloud cover measured with?

Answer 19

okta index card

Question 20

what is humidity measured with?

Answer 20

hygrometer

Question 21

what is humidity measured in?

Answer 21

%

Question 22

What makes up weather?

Answer 22

Cloud cover, temp, precipitation, wind direction/speed, air pressure, sunlight

Question 23

which type of weather is related to the word bar?

Answer 23

air pressure

Question 24

What is an air mass?

Answer 24

A large volume of air travelling from one area to another

Question 25

What affects the weather that an air mass brings?

Answer 25

- temperature - north or south - over sea or land

Question 26

What are the air masses affecting the uk?

Answer 26

Polar maritime, polar continental, arctic maritime, tropical maritime, tropical continental

Question 27

What is the weather coming from the polar maritime like?

Answer 27

wet, cold, showery

Question 28

What is the weather coming from the polar continental like?

Answer 28

hot air brings dry summers, cold air brings snow in winter

Question 29

What is the weather coming from the tropical continental like?

Answer 29

hot, dry,

Question 30

What is the weather coming from the tropical maritime like?

Answer 30

hot, wet

Question 31

Which direction does wind go in terms of air pressure?

Answer 31

High to low

Question 32

On a synoptic chart, where would the most wind be?

Answer 32

where the "contours" were closest together

Question 33

What is a synoptic chart?

Answer 33

a more detailed weather map

Question 34

Which direction does a depression travel in a uk?

Answer 34

west-east

Question 35

What direction do winds blow in a depression?

Answer 35

anticlockwise

Question 36

What is percolation?

Answer 36

Water moving down into the rock

Question 37

What is groundwater flow?

Answer 37

Water moving through the rock

Question 38

What is throughflow?

Answer 38

Water moving downwards through the soil

Question 39

What is infiltration?

Answer 39

water going down into the soil

Question 40

What is groundwater?

Answer 40

Water stored in the ground

Question 41

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Answer 41

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