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Measuring Temperature
Wind
Relative Humidity
100
Fahrenheit
What is the most commonly scale used in the United States?
100
miles per hour/kilometers
What is wind usually measured in?
100
Humidity
What is the amount of water vapor referred to?
200
Kelvin
What is the SI unit of temperature?
200
Cool air
What is more dense than warm air?
200
Relative humidity
What is the ratio of water vapor in a volume of air relative to how much water vapor that volume of air is capable of holding?
300
Heat
What is the transfer of energy that occurs because of a difference in temperature that an object of lower temperature?
300
Air
What generally moves from areas of high density to areas of low density?
300
Air in the lower portion of the atmosphere
What is contains at least some water vapor?
400
Dew point
What is the temperature to which air must be cooled at constant pressure to reach saturation?
400
Wind
What changes with height in the atmosphere?
400
Saturated air
What holds as much water vapor as it can?
500
Dry adiabatic laspe rate
What is the rate at which unsaturated air to which no heat is added or removed will cool?
500
Atmosphere
What works much like an air conditioned building?
500
Warm air
What is capable of holding more moisture?