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General Science Terms
100
The pressure that a column of air exerts on the air or surface below it.
What is air pressure?
100
Intense tropical storm with winds exceeding 119km/hr.
What is a hurricane?
100
Describes a set of weather measurements made on Earth's surface.
What is a surface report?
100
A quantity that can change.
What is a variable?
100
The act of using one or more of your senses to gather information and taking note of what occurs.
What is an observation?
200
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
200
Violent winter storm characterized by freezing temperatures, strong winds, and blowing snow.
What is a blizzard?
200
Specialized radar that can detect precipitation and movement of small particles and can approximate wind speed.
What is Doppler radar?
200
Violent, whirling column of air that comes in contact with the ground.
What is a tornado?
200
A statement of what will happen next in a sequence of events.
What is a prediction?
300
Water, in liquid or solid form, that falls from the atmosphere.
What is Precipitation?
300
A large body of air with distinct temperature and moisture characteristics.
What is an air mass?
300
Detailed program that solves a set of complex mathematical formulas.
What is a computer model?
300
A series of natural processes in which water continually moves among oceans, land, and the atmosphere.
What is the water cycle?
300
A logical explanation of an observation that is drawn from prior knowledge or experience.
What is an inference?
400
Temperature at which air near the ground becomes fully saturated with water.
What is dew point?
400
A large body of circulating air that has high pressure at its center and lower pressure on the outside.
What is high-pressure-system?
400
Describes wind, temperature, and humidity conditions above Earth's surface.
What is an upper-air-report?
400
Atmospheric conditions of a certain place at a certain time.
What is weather?
400
The investigation and exploration of natural events and of the new information that results from those investigations.
What is science?
500
Amount of water vapor present in the air relative to the maximum amount of water vapor the air can contain at that temperature.
What is relative humidity?
500
Boundary between two air masses.
What is a front?
500
Line on a map used to connect all places where air pressure has the same value.
What is isobar
500
Large body of circulating air that has low pressure at its center and higher pressure at its center and higher pressure on the outside.
What is a low-pressure-system?
500
A possible explanation for an observation that can be tested by scientific investigations.
What is a hypothesis?
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