Weather 1
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Transfer of Heat 5
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What is the form of precipitation in which rain freezes as it falls through the air called?
Sleet
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What is the freezing point of water on the Fahrenheit scale?
32 degrees
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Winds are caused by differences in what?
Air Pressure
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What is the average amount of energy of motion of each particle of a substance?
Temperature
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What are the three types of heat transfer?
Radiation, Conduction, and Convection
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What is the most common kind of precipitation?
Rain
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Global winds that blow from the southwest to the northeast in Northern Hemisphere are called?
Prevailing Westerlies
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What type of radiation causes skin cancer?
Ultraviolet
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How is wind direction measured?
Wind Vane
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What do all three types of heat transfer have in common?
They all carry heat through the Earth's atmosphere
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Because of ___________, the sky looks blue.
Scattering
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Clouds form when humid air is cooled to what point?
Dew Point
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What type of clouds are made mostly of ice crystals?
Cirrus
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What part of sunlight has the longest wavelength?
Infrared Radiation
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What is the direct transfer of energy in electromagnetic waves?
Radiation
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If a wind is blowing toward the SOUTH, it is called a _______ wind.
North
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When you walk barefoot on hot sand, how is the heat transferred from the sand to your feet?
Conduction
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What is the direct transfer of electromagnetic waves called?
Radiation
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In what types of clouds do hailstones form?
cumulonimbus
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What is the transfer of heat from one substance to another that it is touching?
Conduction
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What are the three main types of clouds?
Stratus, cirrus, cumulus
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When you compare the readings of a wet-bulb thermometer and a dry-bulb thermometer, what are you measuring?
Relative Humidity
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What instrument is used to measure wind speed?
Anemometer
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What is the upward movement of warm air and the downward movement of cool air called?
convection current
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What is the transfer of hear by the movement of a fluid?
Convection
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