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Vocabulary One
Vocabulary Two
Weather One
Weather Two
Atmosphere
100
The mixture of gasses surrounding the Earth
What is air?
100
A weather instrument that measures air pressure
What is a barometer?
100
The way temperature is measured
What is degrees?
100
Instrument used to record wind direction
What is a wind vane?
100
Layer of the atmosphere that we live in
What is the troposphere?
200
A weather instrument that measures humidity
What is a hygrometer?
200
Anything that takes up space and has mass
What is matter?
200
The way wind speed is measured
What is miles per hour?
200
Instrument to measure temperature
What is a thermometer?
200
Layer of the atmosphere where meteors burn up
What is the mesosphere?
300
The amount of material in something
What is mass?
300
A scientist who studies weather
What is a meteorologist?
300
The way humidity is measured
What is percent?
300
The way wind direction is measured
What is north, south, east and west
300
The average temperature of the troposphere
What is 25 degrees Celcius?
400
The push when compressed air pushes back.
What is pressure?
400
The condition of the air around us - heat, moisture, pressure, and movement are four important important variables that determine this
What is weather?
400
The way visibility is measured
What are miles or kilometers?
400
Types of precipitation
What is rain, hail, sleet and snow?
400
Nitrogen and Oxygen
What are the two main gasses in air?
500
Water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
500
The region of the atmosphere where weather exists
What is the troposphere?
500
The way air pressure is measured
What are inches or millibars?
500
Temperature, humidity, precipitation, wind direction, wind speed, air pressure, visibility
What are wind variables?
500
It can be compressed, is made of particles too small to see, takes up space
What are the properties of air?