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Vocabulary 1
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Vocabulary 3
Pressure and Wind!
Oh, the humidity!
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This is the amount of mass in a given volume of air.
What is density?
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The distance above sea level is this.
What is altitude?
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A local wind that blows from an ocean or lake.
What is a sea breeze?
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This happens as altitude increases.
What is air pressure decreases?
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This instrument measures relative humidity.
What is a psychrometer?
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The weight of a column of air pushing on an area.
What is air pressure?
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The movement of air parallel to the Earth's surface.
What is wind?
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The flow of air from land to a body of water.
What is a land breeze?
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Local winds are caused by this.
What is the uneven heating of Earth's surface?
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Water vapor in the air is commonly referred to as this.
What is relative humidity?
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This has an airtight metal chamber that is sensitive to changes in air pressure.
What is an aneroid barometer?
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This is the increased cooling that wind can cause.
What is windchill?
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The percentage of water vapor that is actually in the air.
What is relative humidity?
300
These are two common common kinds of barometers.
What are mercury and aneroid barometers?
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Air with a relative humidity of 100 percent is this.
What is saturated?
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This consists of a long glass tube that rests in a dish of mercury.  The level of mercury in the tube shows the pressure of the air that day.
What is a mercury barometer?
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This instrument measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
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This instrument measures relative humidity.
What is a psychrometer?
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When air pressure decreases this happens.
What is density decreases?
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Humidity can be found by comparing the temperatures of these.
What are wet bulb and dry bulb thermometers?
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This is an instrument that is used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
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The unequal heating of Earth's surface within a small area cause these to occur.
What are local winds?
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A measure of the amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
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These are the properties of air.
What are mass, density, and pressure?
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The gaseous form of water is this.
What is water vapor?