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Atmosphere
Moving Air
Moisture in the Air
Severe Weather
Measuring Instruments
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the thin blanket of gases and dust particles that surround the earth.
What is atmosphere?
100
This is what we call moving air.
What is wind?
100
This is any type of moisture that falls from the atmosphere and reaches the ground.
What is precipitation?
100
a funnel-shaped cloud of swirling wind that reaches down to the ground.
What is a tornado?
100
This measures the speed of wind.
What is anemometer?
200
the weight of the air
What is air pressure?
200
winds that move in large circular belts around the earth
What are global winds?
200
These are not kinds of precipitation.
What are dew and frost?
200
This is a snowstorm with strong, freezing winds and blowing snow.
What is a blizzard?
200
This measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
300
This is altitude.
What is the measurement of the distance above sea level.
300
a boundary formed where two unlike air masses meet
What is a front?
300
humidity
What is water vapor in the atmosphere?
300
a heat wave
What is a period of tie with higher-than-average temperatures?
300
This show the direction from which the wind is blowing.
What is a wind vane?
400
This is the layer of atmosphere where most weather happens.
What is the troposphere?
400
This influences local winds.
What is temperature?
400
These are large, fluffy clouds.
What cumulus clouds?
400
a hurricane
What is a storm with swirling winds over the ocean?
400
meteorologists record some of their data on these.
What are weather maps?
500
This is the upper part of the stratosphere.
What is the ozone layer.
500
an air mass
What is a large body of air that has about the same temperature and moisture.
500
This is added to names of clouds that produce precipitation.
What is nimbus?
500
This means that conditions are right for a type of severe weather, but that weather is not currently happening.
What is a weather watch?
500
an anemometer
What measures the speed of wind?