Temperature
Pressure
Air
Water
Buoys, etc.
100
How hot or cold something is
What is temperature
100
The pressure exerted by air molecules
What is air pressure
100
Air does this when heated
What is expands
100
Rain, snow, and any other water that falls from the sky
What is precipitation
100
Two things that weather buoys keep track of
What are air temperature and air pressure
200
Heating air in a closed space makes it do this
What is expand
200
Areas of high pressure tend to move toward areas of what?
What is low pressure
200
Air does this when it is cooled
What is "contracts"
200
An air mass that forms over the Atlantic Ocean is likely to be this
What is wet
200
The body of water that our weather buoys are located in
What is the Gulf of Maine
300
Some parts of the Earth receive more heat from the Sun because they are closer to this.
What is the equator
300
Air in warmer places has a ______________ pressure than air in colder places
What is lower
300
A large body of air that has the characteristics of the area of Earth over which it formed
What is air mass
300
Water in the air is called water ___________
What is vapor
300
The amount of "stuff" in something
What is mass
400
Most things do this when cooled
What is contracts
400
Movement of air due to differences in pressure
What is wind
400
A place where two air masses meet
What is a front
400
The amount of this in the atmosphere ranges from nearly zero to four percent
What is water vapor
400
The reason that an egg on a bottle wobbles before it is pushed into the bottle
What is "to release high pressure in the bottle"
500
Water does this when it is cooled
What is expands
500
In a _______________ front, a warm air mass or a cold air mass stops moving because of pressure difference
What is a stationary front
500
All of the air around the Earth
What is the atmosphere
500
Made of tiny droplets of water or crystals of ice
What are clouds
500
The organization that maintains the weather buoys in the Gulf of Maine
What is NERACOOS
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