6.4 and 6.5
6.6 and 7.1
7.2 and 7.3
7.4
7.5 and 7.6
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Device that measures temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100
Movement of air parallel to earth's surface.
What is wind?
100
Any kind of water that falls from the clouds and reaches Earth's surface.
What is Precipitation?
100
Bands of high-speed winds about 10 kilometers above Earth's surface.
What are jet streams?
100
Scientists who study and try to predict weather.
What is a meteorologists?
200
Average amount of energy of motion of each particle of a substance.
What is Temperature?
200
The calm areas near the equator where warm air rises.
What are doldrums?
200
An overflowing of water in a normally dry area.
What is a flood.
200
The boundary where the air masses meet.
What are fronts?
200
Tropical cyclone with winds of 119 km/h or higher.
What is a hurricane?
300
Dust-size particles and gases in the atmosphere disperse light in all directions.
What is Scattering?
300
The movement of water through Earth's systems, powered by the sun's energy.
What is the water cycle?
300
Large period of little rainfall or dry weather.
What is a drought?
300
A swirling center of low air pressure.
What is a cyclone?
300
Lines joining places on the map that have the same temperature.
What are isotherms?
400
The direct transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves.
What is Radiation?
400
Measures wind speed.
What is a anemometer?
400
An open-ended tube that collects rain.
What is a rain gauge?
400
High-pressure centers of dry air.
What are anticyclones?
400
Lines joining places on the map that have the same air pressure.
What are isobars?
500
Gases that hold heat in Earth's atmosphere.
What is the greenhouse effect?
500
Measure of the amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
500
The Temperature at which condensation begins.
What is the dew point?
500
A huge body of air in the lower atmosphere that has similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure at any given height.
What is air mass?
500
A rapid whirling, funnel-shaped cloud that reaches down from a thunderstorm to touch Earth's surface.
What is a tornado?
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