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Chapter 8 (Weather)
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This is the title of Chapter 8.
What is Weather?
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This is the condition of the atmosphere at a given time and place.
What is weather?
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This is the type of scientist that studies weather and tries to predict the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
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This is what hurricanes are called in Asia.
What are typhoons?
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This is the type of weather that Sunnyvale is known for.
What is sunny?
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Clouds that form at or near the ground are called this.
What is fog?
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These are air masses that form over water.
What are maritime air masses?
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These are centers of low pressure that have swirling winds.
What are cyclones?
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Polar easterlies are winds that push air masses from this direction to this direction across the U.S.
What is west to east?
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True or false: Meteorologists can predict the weather a month in advance with great accuracy.
False
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Any form of water that falls from clouds to Earth is called this.
What is precipitation?
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This is what powers the water cycle.
What is the sun?
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This is a boundary where air masses meet.
What is a front?
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This is a high-pressure center of dry air with winds that swirl in the direction opposite of cyclones.
What is an anticyclone?
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A tropical cyclone with wind speeds of at least 119 kilometers per hour is called this.
What is a hurricane?
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This type of air mass forms over land.
What is a continental air mass?
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This type of front forms when a warm air mass overtakes a slowly moving cold air mass.
What is a warm front?
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This is a sudden discharge of electricity in a thunderstorm.
What is lightning?
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These storms produce the highest winds.
What are hurricanes?
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These are lines on a weather map that join places with the same air pressure.
What are isobars?
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This is the measure of the amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
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Hailstorms form only in this type of cloud.
What is cumulonimbus?
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When water vapor in the air condenses, these form. (Hint: Rain falls from some kinds of these.)
What are clouds?
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This forms when rain freezes as it falls through air.
What is sleet?
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This is a huge body of air that has much the same temperature, humidity, anda air pressure.
What is an air mass?
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