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weather tools/clouds
Question | Answer |
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cumulus | puffy with flat bottoms and round tops that signal fair weather |
cirrus | wispy, feathery clouds made of ice crystals that form at high levels |
stratus | clouds that form in flat layers and often cover much of the sky |
nimbus | a rain cloud |
fog | a stratus cloud that forms when air is cooled to its dew point near the ground |
anemometer | an instrument used to measure wind speed |
thermometer | an instrument used to measure wind direction |
sling psychrometer | a tool made of wet and dry thermometer that measures relative humidity and requires a table to interpret the two temperatures |
barometer | an instrument that measures atmospheric pressure |
rain gauge | an instrument used to measure precipitation |
weather map | a map that uses symbols to show weather data |
weather satellites | type of satellite that is primarily used to monitor the weather and cilmate of the earth |
weather radar | is an instrument that sends pluses of electromangnetic energy into the atmosphere to find precipitation, determine its motion and intensity, and identify the precipitation type such as rain,snow or hail |
isobar | line on map connecting points having the same barometric reading at a given time |
isobar | a line on a weather map that joins places that have the same temperature |