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When liquid water changes to water vapor as it goes into the atmosphere.
What is evaporation?
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an instrument used to measure air pressure
What is a barometer?
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a large body of air that has the same temperature and humidity
What is an air mass?
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a meteorologist
What is a person who studies weather called?
100
doppler radar
What is an instrument that meteorologists use to predict weather?
200
The sun provides this in the water cycle.
What is energy?
200
This is used to measure the amount of rainfall
What is a rain gauge?
200
a front
What is the boundary where two air masses meet called?
200
what symbols of the weather map mean
What does a key on a map tell you?
200
cumulus cloud
What is a cloud that is puffy and white and usually occurs on a sunny, blue skies?
300
Rain, sleet, snow, hail
What is precipitation?
300
an instrument that measure wind speed
What is an anemometer?
300
stormy conditions such as tornadoes or thunderstorms
What usually happens at a front?
300
high pressure area
What does an H stand for on a weather map?
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Its means curl of hair, and is high in the sky, and is made of ice crystals
What is a cirrus cloud?
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Water vapor changes into liquid water.
What is condensation?
400
an instrument that is sent into the atmosphere using a balloon with helium
What is a radiosonde?
400
an air mass over water
What kind of air mass is typically moist?
400
weather forecast
What is a prediction of upcoming weather called?
400
atmosphere
What is the layer of gases surrounding the earth called?
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water in the form of a gas
What is water vapor?
500
an instrument that collects and records data on coastal weather
What is a weather buoy?
500
climate
What is an area's average weather over a long period of time called?
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hurricane
What are the largest, most powerful storms on Earth called?
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humidity
What is the amount of water vapor in the air called?