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Vocabulary
Weather tools
Fronts
Currents
The Sun
100
What is the condition of Earth's atmosphere at a certain time and place?
Weather
100
What is a cool air mass that is more dense than a warm air mass?
Front
100
What type of current moves away from the equator?
Warm currents
100
How do we feel wind?
Areas of higher pressure moves into areas of lower pressure
200
What is the temperature at which more condensation than evaporation occurs?
Dew point
200
What is used to measure wind speed?
Anemometer
200
What is it called when cold air moves under warm air?
Cold front
200
What type of current moves away from poles?
Cold currents
200
If you were on one of the poles what type of weather would you receive?
Cold weather
300
What are the currents on the surface of the ocean?
Surface currents
300
What is measured by using a wind vane or a wind sock?
Wind direction
300
What is it called when a warm air mass goes over a cold air mass?
Warm front
300
If you were in the middle of a state near the coastal line bringing cold currents in, what type of weather would you receive?
Warm weather
300
What happens when the sun warms a ocean or other body of water?
It evaporates
400
What is the force of air molecules pushing on an area?
Air pressure
400
What measures the amount of rain that has falling?
Rain gauge
400
What is it called when cold and warm air stop moving?
Stationary front
400
What do oceans have in effect on weather?
Hurricanes and monsoons
400
What is the difference between the sun's rays that strike at the equator and the sun's rays that strikes the poles?
The difference is that one receives cold weather and warm weather, or the amount of daylight and darkness.
500
What is the surface features of an area combined to form?
Topography
500
What is an instrument that is used the measure relative humidity?
Psychrometer
500
What do warm fronts bring?
Drizzly rain and are followed by warm, clear weather
500
Does Great Britan have cold or warm air?
Warm, because of the Gulf Stream.
500
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