Section #: 12.3
Gathering Weather Data
Practice Test
1.
What type of instrument is used to measure wind speed?
a.
a ceilometer
b.
a hygrometer
c.
an anemometer
d.
a barometer
Hint
2.
What instrument is used to measure temperature?
a.
an anemometer
b.
a barometer
c.
a thermometer
d.
a radiosonde
Hint
3.
What type of instrument probably was not used to provide the information in the station model pictured in the figure?
a.
barometer
b.
thermometer
c.
anemometer
d.
Doppler radar
Hint
4.
__________ is used to measure the speed of raindrops toward or away from a specific point.
a.
ASOS
b.
A ceilometer
c.
Doppler radar
d.
a radiosonde
Hint
5.
What is the network of weather stations located across the United States called?
a.
a ceilometer
b.
radiosondes
c.
Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS)
d.
weather radar system
Hint
