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Air Masses and Fronts
Water Cycle
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This tool measures in both degrees Celsius and Fahrenheit.
What is a thermometer?
100
The outer most layer of the atmosphere that borders outer space and contains satellites.
What is the exosphere?
100
The three ways that heat is transferred.
What is radiation, conduction and convection?
100
This front is symbolized by a red line with semicircles.
What is a warm front?
100
Rain, sleet, hail, or snow.
What is precipitation?
200
This tool can be used to measure the amount of precipitation that falls in a given area.
What is a rain gauge?
200
This layer is very cold and causes weather balloons to burst sending the instruments it carries back to Earth's surface.
What is the stratosphere?
200
Walking along hot sand in bare feet is an example of this type of heat transfer.
What is conduction?
200
A continental polar air mass brings this type of air from Canada.
What is dry, cool air?
200
The process by which water molecules in liquid water escape into the air as water vapor.
What is evaporation?
300
Mercury or aneroid, a barometer is used to measure this condition of the atmosphere.
What is air pressure?
300
The upper stratosphere contains this layer of three-atom oxygen molecules that absorb energy from the sun and turns it into heat.
What is the ozone?
300
The transfer of energy from the sun in invisible rays.
What is radiation?
300
This front generally brings long periods of rain and clouds followed by warmer weather.
What is a warm front?
300
When water travels from land back into the oceans, lakes and streams.
What is run-off?
400
You can use this tool to calculate the strength of the wind.
What is an anemometer?
400
As you travel through the troposphere, the air pressure decreases and so does this.
What is temperature?
400
The upward movement of warm air and the downward movement of cool air that forms currents and moves heat.
What is convection?
400
A boundary between two air masses.
What is a front?
400
The measure of the amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
500
This tool consists of two thermometers that allow you to determine the relative humidity of the air.
What is a wet and dry-bulb psychrometer?
500
If you are traveling through the ionosphere, you may encounter this brilliant light phenomenon caused by particles from the sun.
What is the aurora borealis?
500
The direct transfer of heat from one substance to another substance that are touching each other.
What is conduction?
500
A sudden change in weather would be caused.
What is the arrival of a new air mass?
500
The process by which water vapor is cooled and turns back into water droplets.
What is condensation?