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Weather
Weather Instruments
Clouds and Precipitation
Air Masses, Fronts, Air Pressure
Humidity and Climate Change
100
When these storms move over land they lose strength or weaken.
What is a hurricane?
100
An instrument that measures humidity
What is a hygrometer
100
a cloud at ground level
What is fog?
100
air that moves horizontally
What is wind?
100
the changing of a gas into a liquid
What is condensation?
200
The usual weather in a place.
What is climate?
200
The instrument you use to measure precipitation.
What is a rain gauge?
200
any form of water particles that falls from the atmosphere and reaches the ground
What is precipitation?
200
a wind that blows from the sea toward the land
What is a sea breeze?
200
the changing of a liquid into a gas
What is evaporation?
300
The place where one air mass meets another air mass.
What is a front?
300
This weather instrument measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
300
a type of cloud that forms in blanketlike layers
What is stratus clouds?
300
a large region of the atmosphere where the air has similar properties throughout
What is air mass?
300
the amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
400
The state of the air at a certain time and place
What is weather?
400
The weather instrument that measures the temperature
What is a thermometer?
400
these clouds are puffy and appear to rise up from a flat bottom
What is cumulous clouds?
400
when cold air moves in under a warm air mass
What is a cold front?
400
All the gas from pollution traps the heat from the sun and heats the earth.
What is the greenhouse effect?
500
Scientists who study weather
What are meteorologists?
500
shows the direction from which the wind blows
What is a weather vane?
500
this type of cloud forms at a very high altitude out of ice crystals and have a wispy, featherlike shape
What is cirrus clouds?
500
when warm air moves in over a cold air mass
What is a warm front?
500
A short term climate change
What is El Nino?