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Units 5 and 6
Weather and Oceans
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This measures temperature and heat | Thermometer |
| This measures air pressure | Barometer |
| This measures relative humidity | Hygrometer |
| This type of hygrometer uses two thermometers-wet and dry bulb | Psychrometer |
| Thermometer are marked with what two scales to measure temperature | Fahrenheit and Celsius |
| This measures wind speed | Anemometer |
| What is used to measure wind directions? | Wind Vane or Wind Sock |
| This measures the amount of moisture that falls | Rain Gauge |
| What is used to collect weather information at higher altitudes? | Weather Balloon |
| What is the most important tool for collecting weather data and for forecasting? | The Computer |
| What is the standard format for weather data that resembles a picture called? | Weather Station Model |
| The ocean covers what percentage of the surface of the earth? | 71 percent |
| What is the largest Ocean | The Pacific Ocean |
| What Ocean is located along the east coast of the United States? | The Atlantic Ocean |
| What Ocean is located between Africa and Australia? | The Indian Ocean |
| This Ocean is also called the Southern Ocean | The Antarctic Ocean |
| What Ocean is mostly frozen year round? | The Artic Ocean |
| What is Ocean that is partially enclosed by land called? | Sea |
| What is ocean that partially dents into land called | A Gulf |
| What process causes salt to accumulate in Oceans? | Evaporation |
| What is the most common mineral found in seawater? | Salt |
| What is the movement of surface water caused by wind and sun called? | Surface Current |
| What else effects surface currents besides wind and sun? | The Rotations of the Earth |
| Currents in the Northern Hemisphere usually flow what direction? | Clockwise |
| Currents in the Southern Hemisphere usually flow in what directions? | Counter Clockwise |
| One of the best known currents that flows up the east coast of the United States is called? | The Gulf Stream |
| Wind on the surface of the Ocean can produce what? | Waves |
| This measures the difference between the highest and lowest point of the wave | Wave Height |
| What is the highest point of a wave called | Crest |
| What is the lowest point of a wave called | Trough |
| This measures the difference between one wave crest to the next | Wavelength |
| What is the top of the wave as it falls over called? | A Breaker |
| What is a back flow of waves that is very dangerous to swimmers and can easily pull them out to sea? | Rip Current or Rip Tide |
| What is the most dangerous wave called? | Tsunamis |
| What is the change in water level along the shore called | The Tide |
| When the water level is high and closed to the shore what is that tide called? | High Tide |
| What is the tide called at its lowest point? | Low Tide |
| What tides happens between the full and new moon? | Neap Tide |
| This higher than normal tide happens at full moon and new moon? | Spring Tide |
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