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earth's atmosphere
air currents and wind
oceans and air tempeture
severe weather
predicting weather
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atmosphere
What is the air that surrounds Earth?
100
an imaginary line around Earth's middle
What is the equator?
100
average weather conditions in a place
What is climate?
100
a large amount of air that has a similar temperature and humidity throughout.
What is air mass?
100
a guess about what will happen based on what you know and see
What is a forecast?
200
troposphere
What is the layer closest to Earth?
200
heat traveling through the movement of a gas or liquid
What is convection?
200
current
what is an ongoing movement of ocean water?
200
front
What is two air masses meeting place?
200
a global wind in the U.S. that blows at 240 kilometers mph.
What is the jet stream?
300
barometer
What is a tool used to measure air pressure?
300
when high pressure over water move to low pressures over land
What is a sea breeze?
300
when cold water from the poles go down to the equator
What is cold current?
300
a spinning cloud shaped like a funnel
What is a tornado?
300
a low pressure symbol
What is L?
400
troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere
What is the layer of atmosphere in order?
400
when high pressure over land moves to low pressure over water
What is a land breeze?
400
warm current
What is warm water from the equator moving to the poles?
400
the rise in the height of the ocean around a hurricane
What is a storm surge?
400
a weather instrument that collects data from inside the atmosphere
What is a weather balloon?
500
a liquid metal
What is mercury?
500
winds that blow in a predictable direction over long distances all the time
What are global winds?
500
the two contienets on the west coast effected by El Niño
What is North and South America?
500
a seasonal wind that brings heavy rain
What is a monsoon?
500
an instrument that takes pictures of storms and clouds from space
What is a satellite?