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Vocabulary
Weather Variables
Weather Instruments
Atmosphere
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A scientist who studies the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
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The distance you can see through the air.
What is visibility?
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A weather insstrument that measures temperature.
What is a thermometer?
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The most plentiful gas in Earth's atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
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Forced into a smaller space
What is compressed
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The condition of the atmosphere at a given time and place.
What is weather?
200
The force exerted on a surface by the mass of the air above it.
What is air pressure?
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A weather instrument that measures humidity
What is a Hygrometer?
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The second most plentiful gas in Earth's atmosphere.
What is oxygen?
200
The gases surrounding Earth
What is the atmosphere?
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Any weather factor that can change.
What is a weather variable?
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Air in motion
What is wind?
300
A weather instrument that measures wind direction.
What is a wind vane?
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The layer of the atmosphere where most weather happens.
What is the troposphere?
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The push when compressed air pushes back.
What is pressure?
400
Scientists who study climate
What are climatologists?
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How hot the air is.
What is temperature?
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The weather instrument that measures wind speed with wind-catching cups.
What is an anemometer?
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The layer of the atmosphere above the troposphere where the ozone layer is.
What is the stratosphere?
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The scientific study of Earth's weather
What is meteorology?
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A prediction of future events or condiditons?
What is a forecast?
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Something that can change.
What is a variable?
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The weather instrument that measures wind speed with a small ball in a tube.
What is a wind meter?
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The layer of the atmosphere that makes the transition into space.
What is the exosphere?
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What is data that weather scientists measure
What are weather variables?