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Air and Weather
Measuring Weather
Tracking the Weather
Climate
The Water Cycle
100
The lowest layer of the atmosphere
What is the troposphere?
100
a tube that collects water to show the amount of rain fall
What is a rain gauge
100
When a warm air mass pushes into a cold air mass
What is a warm front
100
a directed flow of a gas or a liquid
What is a current
100
The source of energy for the Water Cycle
What is the sun
200
A large region or air with nearly the same temperature and water vaport throughout
What is an air mass?
200
this measures air temperature in degrees
What is a thermometer
200
to predict weather conditions
What is forecast
200
a measure of how far a place is from the equator
What is latitude
200
the water that falls from clouds down to Earth
What is precipitation
300
a measure of how much moisture is in the air
What is humidity?
300
This measures air pressure
What is a barometer
300
A storm usually forms along this
What is a front?
300
the altitude is highest at this place
What is the top of a mountain
300
This occurs when a gas changes to a liquid
What is condensation
400
Rain, snow,sleet, and hail
What are forms of precipitation
400
A tool to measure the speed of wind
What is an anemometer?
400
this symbol on a weather map represents a cold front
What are blue lines with blue triangles
400
These four factors determine climate
What is latitude, global winds, ocean currents, and distance from the water
400
The three types of clouds
What are cirrus, stratus, and cummulus
500
the condition of the atmosphere at a particular time and place
What is weather
500
This points in the direction from which the wind is blowing
What is wind vane
500
Air masses form here all the time
What are near the poles or the equator?
500
This type of climate is very cold and very low precipitation
What is a polar climate
500
The process that changes rain into snow
What is freezing