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What is the point where the solar wind pushes on Earth's magnetic field?
Magnetopause
What instrument indicates the direction of the wind?
Weather vane
What is the feathery deposit of ice crystals that forms when the water vapor crystallizes on the ground?
Frost
What thunderstorm stage is marked by the arrival of precipitation?
Mature Stage
What is a heat transfer by electromagnetic waves?
Radiation
What are warm, dry winds that travel down mountain slopes?
Foehns
What is the movement of water from the earth's surface, into the air, and back to the surface?
Hydrologic cycle
What are the surface winds that blow toward the equator in the tropics?
Trade Winds
What is the change in direction of winds caused by Earth's rotation?
Coriolis Effect
What is an instrument that measures wind speed?
Anemometer
Which type of cloud is characteristically almond shaped?
Lenticular
Which are the surface winds that blow toward the equator in the tropics?
Trade winds
What forms when water vapor in the air touches cool ground and turns into a liquid?
Dew
What colorful displays occur when solar wind particles react with molecules in the atmosphere?
Auroras
What is the most destructive force of a hurricane?
Wind
Which of the following is one of three major factors that causes weather?
Water Vapor
What is a rotating column of air that starts on the ground and is not associated with a cloud?
Dust Devil
What extremely powerful computers do meteorologists use to generate weather forecasts?
Supercomputers
What is a single updraft system in a thunderstorm?
Cell
What device is used to measure the amount of rainfall that a location receives?
Rain Gauge
Heat from a fireplace causes air to circulate throughout a room as hot air rises and cold air sinks. What is this type of air circulation called?
Convection Current
What term refers to numbers and symbols on a weather map that indicate observations at a particular weather station?
Station Model
What instrument do meteorologists use to measure the distance from the ground to the base of clouds?
Ceilometer
What extremely powerful radiation heats the molecules of the ionosphere?
Cosmic Rays
What is the reflected light from high-altitude lightning strikes in distant thunderstroms?
Heat-lightning