7 earth vocab

A large body of air in the troposphere with similar characteristics of pressure, moisture, and temperature

• Anemometer

• Barometer

• Air mass

• Air pressure gradient

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

A instrument specifically used to measure water vapor in the air

• Psychrometer

• Air pressure gradient

• Anemometer

• Barometer

A weather instrument used to measure wind speed

• Wind vane

• Barometer

• Anemometer

• Thermometer

Howe transparent the atmosphere is to insolation, how easily insolation can pass through the air

• Atmospheric transparency

• Cloud cover

• Cyclone

• Cyclonic storm

An instrument used to measure air pressure

• Anemometer

• Thermometer

• Cyclone

• Barometer

The fraction or percent of the total sky at a kilo cation that is covered by clouds

• Wind vane

• Could cover

• Eye of the storm tracker

• Cold front

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

The boundary of an advancing cold air mass and warmer air mass, where the underlying cold air pushes forward like a wedge

• Cold front

• Cyclone

• Dew point

• Cyclonic storm

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

A low pressure portion of the troposphere that has air moving toward its center

• Cyclonic storm

• Cold front

• Cloud cover

• Cyclone

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

The ratio of their amount of water vapor in the air to the maximum amount it can hold

• Cyclone

• Relative humidity

• Dew point

• Anemometer

The temperature at which the air becomes saturated with water vapor and the relative humidity is 100 percent

• Dew point

• Cyclonic storm

• Humidity

• Air reassure