What are 1.maritime tropical
2.continental tropical
3.maritime polar
4.maritime tropical
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This tool measures the air pressure.
What is a barometer?
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a measure of the average pattern of variation in temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, precipitation, atmospheric particle count and other meteorological variables in a given region over long periods of time.
What is climate?
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name the four types of fronts.
What is Cold fronts, warm fronts, stationary fronts, and occluded fronts?
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This layer of the atmosphere is the outer most layer.
What is the thermosphere?
200
Name the two main characteristics that define air masses -
What are temperature and moisture?
200
This tool measures the amount of rain that has fallen over a specific time period.
What is a rain gauge?
200
it takes this many years to determine an areas climate.
What is 30?
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THIS PRESSURE SYSTEM BRINGS SUNNY, COOL AIR
What is A HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM?
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Name the 5 layers of the atmosphere.
What are the Exosphere, Thermosphere, Mesosphere, Stratosphere, and Troposphere.
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which is air over a large land mass.
What is Continental Air mass?
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an instrument that determines the direction from which the wind is blowing.
What is A WIND VANE?
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defined as the transition zone between two air masses of different density
What is A front?
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a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud
What is A tornado?
400
The atmosphere is made of 78% of this.
What is nitrogen?
400
As the altitude increases the air gets what?
What is less dense?
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This measures wind speed. The cups catch the wind, turning a dial attached to the instrument. The dial shows the wind speed.
What is An ANEMOMETER?
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when a cold front overtakes a warm front. It brings heavy precipitation and sometimes a thunderstorm.
What is a Occluded front?
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intense low pressure areas that form over warm ocean waters in the summer and early fall.
What are Hurricanes?
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The troposphere is the level that contains what two things.
What are life and weather.
500
When particles are close together this forms this kind of air.
What is cold air?
500
A HYGROMETER measures the water vapor content of air or this.