Atmosphere | Weather Instruments | Clouds and Precipitation | Weather | Vocabulary |
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What is nitrogen
The most abundant gas in the atmosphere
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What is a thermometer
This instrument measures temperature
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What is snow
Most common form of solid precipitation
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What are conduction, convection, and radiation
The three types of heat transfer
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What is short term atmospheric conditions
The definition of weather
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What is the troposphere
The layer of the atmosphere where weather occurs
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What is a wind vane
This shows the direction of wind
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What are stratus, cirrus, and cumulus
The three main types of clouds
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What are pressure centers
What do H and L indicate on a weather map
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What is the dew point
The temperature at which the rate of condensation and rate of equilibrium are at equilibrium
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What is the thermosphere
The hottest layer of the atmosphere
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What is air pressure
A barometer measures this
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What is precipitation producing
The prefix nimbo indicates a could that is this
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What is weather is short term; Climate is weather in a region over a period of time
The difference between weather and climate
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What is latent heat
Energy absorbed or released by a substance during a change in its physical state (phase) that occurs without changing its temperature.
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What is the mesosphere
Meteoroids burn up in this layer
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What are Celsius, Fahrenheit, and Kelvin
The three units a thermometer uses
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What is between 2000-6000 m (7000 is acceptable)
The altitude middle clouds form (in meters)
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What is
This happens when air is warmed
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What is long term weather conditions characteristic of a region or the entire Earth
the definition of climate
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What is the stratosphere
This layer contains a layer of ozone
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What are atmospheric pressure, temperature, humidity and wind speed
The four things a weather balloon can measure
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What is cover a large area and sometimes violents
The characteristics of storms along a warm front
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What is equal to
The Earth's incoming energy is (more, less or equal to) the outgoing energy
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What is advective cooling
Occurs when the temperature of an air mass decreases as a result of the horizontal movement of the air mass over a cool surface
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