Weather unit 4 chapter 2 vocabulary quiz

What is humidity?

• The amount of water vapor in the air compared with the amount that the air can hold.

• An area where cold air is sinking.

• The amount of water vapor in the air.

• An area where warm air is rising.

What is weather?

• The transfer of heat through space or matter by waves.

• The daily changes of the temperature, humidity, cloud cover, winds, and participation in the atmosphere.

• The movement of air from high pressure areas to low pressure areas.

What is radiation?

• The transfer of heat from one substance through another by direct contact.

• The transfer of heat through space or matter by waves.

• The transfer of heat that occurs in moving fluids caused by the circulation of currents from one region to another.

What is convection?

• The transfer of heat that occurs in moving fluids caused by circulation of currents from one region to another.

• The transfer of heat from one substance to another by direct contact.

• The transferred heat through space or matter by waves.

What is conduction?

• The transfer of heat through space or matter by waves.

• The transfer of heat from one substance through another by direct contact.

• The transfer of heat that occurs in moving fluids caused by the circulation of currents from one region to another.

What is atmospheric pressure?

• Pressure exerted by earth atmosphere at any given point.

• An area where warm air is rising.

• In area where cold air is sinking.

What is a low pressure area?

• An area where cold air is sinking.

• Pressure exerted by earth atmosphere at any given point.

• An area were warm air rising.

What is a high pressure area?

• Pressure exerted by earth’s atmosphere at any given point.

• In area were cold air is sinking.

• An area where warm air is rising.

What is a barometer?

• An instrument used to measure wind speed

• An instrument used to find where the wind is coming from.

• An instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure.

• An instrument used to measure temperature.

What is a anemometer?

• And an instrument used to find atmospheric pressure.

• An instrument used to find the temperature.

• An instrument used to find wind speed.

• An instrument used to find where the wind is coming from.