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What are three types of stationary ways to collect weather?
What is ground station and weather buoy
100
What is the definition of weather?
What is the condition of Earths atmosphere at a certain time and place
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What is an instrument that measures weather?
What is thermometer
100
When do air mass form?
What is when the air over a large region of Earth says in one area for many days.
100
_________ also have an effect on weather in forms of hurricanes and monsoons
What is oceans
200
What does a barometer measure?
What is air pressure
200
What is the measure of how hot or cold something is?
What is temperature
200
What measures humidity?
What is psychrometer
200
What is a front?
What is a boundary that forms between the air masses.
200
_____ are caused by unequal heating of Earths surface
What is winds
300
Why is latitude closer to the equator have warmer climate?
What is so the energy is more consontrated to a small part of earth, as a result that area has high temperatures, area near the poles have lower temperature because the energy is less concontrated.
300
what is the amount of water vapor in the air called?
What is humidity
300
What measures air pressure?
What is barometer
300
when does a warm front form?
What is when air mass follows a retreating cold air mass.
300
A ______ jet stream can pull cold air down from Canada into the US and pull warm air up toward Canada.
What is polar jet stream
400
When does snow form?
What is when air temperatures are so low that water vapor turns into a solid.
400
what is the temperature at which more condensation than evaporation occurs?
What is dew point
400
What measures wind speed?
What is anemometer
400
What is a stationary front?
What is when there is not enough wind for either the cold air mass or the warm air mass to keep moving.
400
In a _____ pressure system, air rises and so has a lower air pressure then the areas around it
What is low air pressure
500
what are small ice pellets that fall when rain falls through cold air?
What is sleet
500
What is any form of water falls to Earths surface from the clouds?
What is precipitation
500
What measures wind direction?
What is wind vane
500
What happens in a high-pressure system>
What is when air sinks down slowly.
500
The two types of thermometers are_______ and ________
What is a liquid and electrical theromometer