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the elements of weather
clouds
Influences of weather
climate
100
weather
What is a short-term condition of Earth at a certain place and time
100
Clouds
What are collections of water droplets or ice fragments suspended in air?
100
water cycle
What is the cycle that causes water to move around the atmosphere and Earth
100
Climate
What is the long-term state of an area
200
thermometer
What is a gauge that measures the temperature of a place
200
water vapor
What is water that is evaporated
200
Air mass
What is a mass of air that has the same amount of humidity and temperature throughout?
200
topography
What is the surface features of an area?
300
precipitation
What is any form of water falling from the sky
300
solar energy
What is energy that comes from the sun
300
fronts
What is the boundary between two air masses
300
Ocean current
What is a current of water in the ocean
400
air pressure
What is the pressure of air pushing down on you
400
frontal lifting
What is a kind of wind that has warm air rise as wind pushes the air backwards
400
Jet Stream
What is a global high-speed wind?
400
The tropical zone
What is the hottest temperature Zone that is close to the equator?
500
visibility
What is the measure of transparency of the atmosphere
500
orographic lifting
What is a type of wind where an air mass is pushed by a different air mass up rising terrain
500
Surface Current
What is a current that is on the surface
500
polar zone
What is the coldest climate zone close to the poles?