Weather Technology

What does a rain gauge measure?

• Temperature

• Humidity

• Precipitation

• Wind direction

What is the name of this weather tool?

• Thermometer

• Anemometer

• Rain gauge

• Hygrometer

If you want to know the wind direction, what weather tool should be used?

• Rain gauge

• Thermometer

• Anemometer

• Hygrometer

It is a piece of equipment that has been launched into space and revolves around the Earth taking pictures of the weather that occurs below.

• Weather balloon

• Weather buoy

• Weather radar

• Weather satellite

What are weather buoys?

• devices used to measure weather conditions at Earth's surface

• devices that are used to collect weather and ocean data in the world's oceans.

• devices that used for measuring atmospheric conditions at high altitudes.

• devices that shoots out energy in the form of radio waves

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If you want to measure humidity or how much water is in the air, what weather tool be used?

• Thermometer

• Rain gauge

• Hygrometer

• Anemometer

What do we call a scientist who studies and tries to predict the weather?

• weatherologist

• astrologist

• physicist

• meteorologist

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When was the first weather satellite launched?

• 1960

• 1961

• 1962

• 1963

Which of the following carries instruments up into the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere to measure temperature, air pressure, and humidity?

• weather balloon

• satellites

• radar

• automated surface weather stations

If a weather service map has a circle that is shaded completely in, what does that mean about the cloud cover in that area?

• There is 100% cloud cover in that area.

• There is 0% cloud cover in that area.

• There is a good chance of rain.

• There are sunny skies.

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